OTHER OSRD RESEARCH GROUPS \X] 



One of the principal activities of the Committee was to maintain a Co- 

 ordination Center for the purpose of assembUng information on insect and 

 rodent control and making it available to qualified personnel. 



Upon the recommendation of, and under contract with OSRD, the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences formed an Insect Control Committee in Febru- 

 ary 1945, composed of representatives of most of the Government agencies 

 working in the field, in order that they might consider broader aspects of 

 insect control and the relationship to it of their respective programs. As 

 OSRD demobilized, the Academy Committee took over those functions of 

 the OSRD Committee of a continuing interest. Then on July i, 1946, it 

 became the Chemical-Biological Co-ordination Center of the National Re- 

 search Council. 



Within the framework of the organizations heretofore discussed — 

 NDRC, CMR, and the groups described in the present chapter — there 

 was carried on the work for which OSRD was created. The next chapter 

 describes steps taken to obtain the best combat results from the products 

 of their endeavor; and most of the remainder of the volume is devoted to 

 the supporting activities whose objective was to make possible the effective 

 functioning of the groups primarily responsible for results in the fields of 

 military research. 



