48 ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCES 



2. Page 5, line 1, insert the word "chemical," after the word "fish- 

 eries" and before the word "hydrographic". This is a perfecting 

 amendment in connection with t3q)es of data to be assembled and dis- 

 seminated at the National Oceanographic Data Center. 



3. Page 5, line 12, insert "shall be composed of scientists and" 

 between the words "which" and "shall". This amendment, referring 

 to the composition of the divisional committee which would be 

 established in the Marine Science Division of the National Science 

 Foundation, was made in response to a communication from Dr. 

 Paul M. Fye, director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 

 Woods Hole, Mass. Dr. Fye expressed apprehension that some 

 Government bureaus might name representatives to the divisional 

 committee "with little or no experience in marine sciences, and per- 

 haps with no contact with research at all," and pointed out tliat other 

 divisional committees of the Foundation are persons with scientific 

 abihty in applicable fields. The amendment precludes a deviation 

 from established procedure in this respect in designation by Govern- 

 ment bureaus or agencies of representatives on the dividional com- 

 mittee. 



4. Page 5, line 15, strike the word "oceanographic" and substitute 

 the word "marine". This amendment relates to the designation of 

 non-Government scientists to the proposed divisional committee of 

 the National Science Foundation's Division of Marine Sciences. 

 Such members of the divisional commit uee who are not connected 

 with the Federal Government would be selected from educational 

 institutions, laboratories, industries, or foundations. The Senate 

 Commerce Committee was advised that in some areas or gi'oups the 

 word "oceanographic" is interpreted as applying specifically to the 

 physical sciences in the marine environment. It is not the intent of 

 this committee that this interpretation be followed, either in this 

 section or in any other section of the act. However, to avoid any 

 possibility of misunderstanding in the scientific community as to the 

 mtent of the committee, the broad term "marine" is here substituted 

 in this early section of the act. 



In order to dissipate any possibility of an erroneous interpretation 

 in other sections of the act, the words "oceanographic" or "ocea- 

 nography" when used in this act, are applicable to any or all scientific 

 studies or any or all scientific aspects of the oceans, their boundaries, 

 or their contents, and to ships, laboratories, instruments, devices, or 

 other facilities for such studies. The Committee on Oceanography 

 of the National Academy of Sciences so construed the two terms in 

 its report recommending an expanded 10-year program of oceanog- 

 raphic research and surveys. 



Page 5, line 16, insert the word "colleges" before the word "uni- 

 versities". Educational institutions which have marine scientists 

 on their faculties include colleges as well as universities, and at some 

 institutions colleges conducting marine research or studies exist within 

 the university structure. It is the purpose of this act that non- 

 Government representatives on the divisional committee of the Divi- 

 sion of Marine Sciences may be selected from all institutions of higher 

 education — and from other non-Government sources — or from com- 

 ponents of such institutions and that selection be based on scientific 

 quahfications of the selectees and not on the descriptive or official 

 title of the institution. 



