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oe To survey the larger possibilities of science, to formulate 
comprehensive projects of research, and to develop effective 
means of utilizing the scientific and technical resources of the 
country for dealing with these projects. 
“3. To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, 
in order to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, 
and stimulate progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to 
give encouragement to individual initiative as fundamentally im- 
portant to the advancement of science. 
“4. To serve as a means of bringing American and foreign in- 
vestigators into active cooperation with the scientific and tech- 
nical services of the War and Navy Departments and with those 
of the civil branches of the government. 
“sc. To direct the attention of scientific and technical investiga- 
tors to the present importance of military and industrial problems 
in connection with the war, and to aid in the solution of these 
problems by organizing specific researches. 
“6. To gather and collate scientific and technical information, 
at home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other 
agencies, and to render such information available to duly accred- 
ited persons. 
“Effective prosecution of the council’s work requires the cor- 
dial collaboration of the scientific and technical branches of the 
government, both military and civil. To this end representatives 
of the government, upon the nomination of the National Academy 
of sciences, will be designated by the President as members of the 
council, as heretofore, and the heads of the departments imme- 
diately concerned will continue to cooperate in every way that 
may be required. 



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“ Wooprow WILSON. 
“Tre Wuite House, 
1r May, 1918.” 

HEARING ON PROPOSED RESTRICTIONS ON THE 
IMPORTATION OF PLANTS 
At a public hearing held in Washington on May 28, more than 
a hundred people attended to present arguments pro and con re- 
