ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCES 69 



Dr. C. P. Idyll, of the University of Miami, in his testimony quoted 

 the report of the President's Science Advisory Committee, which was 

 prepared near the close of the previous administration, as follows: 



Whether the quantity and quality of basic research and 

 graduate education in the United States will be adequate or 

 inadequate depends primarily on the Government of the 

 United States. From this responsibilit}^ the Federal Govern- 

 ment has no escape. Either it will find the policies — and 

 resources — which permit our universities to flourish and their 

 duties to be adequately discharged, or no one will. 



The report is titled ''Scientific Progress, the Universities and the 

 Federal Government." 



Dr. Joseph L. McCarth}', dean of the Graduate School, University 

 of Washington, in a letter to your committee, stated: 



The need is great for additional scientists and technologists 

 highly trained in the marine sciences. Therefore, it seems 

 particularly impoilant to provide arrangements for fellow- 

 ships and assistantships to graduate students engaged in 

 programs of stud}' and research leading toward advanced 

 degrees. 



To carry forward an expanded program of teaching and 

 research in oceanography and the marine sciences, expansion 

 is needed in the number of faculty in these fields, and in 

 financial support for these men. The universities are hard 

 put now to provide for the needed increases in faculty 

 personnel. 



Committee amendments to section 9 



Page 29, line 6, insert a new subsection as follows: 



(e) Research contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or 

 authorized under authority of section 9 of this act, shall be 

 provided for in such a manner that all information, uses, 

 products, processes, patents, and other developments result- 

 ing from such research developed by Government expenditure 

 shall be, subject to the national and public health interests 

 as determined by the Secretary and the Surgeon General of 

 the United States, available to the general public: Provided, 

 however, That nothing herein shall be construed to deprive 

 the owner of any background patent relating thereto to 

 such rights as he may have thereunder. 



It is the opinion of many scientists that significant advances may be 

 made in the fields of medicine and public health through the research 

 program authorized in this section of S. 901. Such benefits should 

 accrue to the Nation as a whole and the processes and products that 

 may be developed through this research should be available to the 

 public without restriction, except in the national or public health 

 interest as determined by the Secretary and Surgeon General. 



SECTION 10 



Appropriations are authorized in section 10 to further the programs 

 of research and education that would be authorized in section 9. 



