APPENDIX DESCRIBING THE ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE 

 OF THE COMMITTEE WHICH PREPARED THE REPORT 



At a joint meeting of the Science Committe and the 

 Advisory Committee of the National Resources Com- 

 mittee held oji June 26 and 27, 1937, it wiis v(jted to 

 establish a subcommittee to prepare a report on (he re- 

 lations of Government to research. The subcommittee 

 appointed consisted of W. F. Oyburn, E. B. Wilson, 

 and C. H. Judd, chairman. The committee was in- 

 structed to prei^are and present a report within a year. 



Durinn: July 1937, Stuart A. Rice, Chairman of the 

 Central Statistical Board, was appointed director of 

 the study. Dr. Rice served until early in October at 

 which time he was obliged to withdraw because of the 

 duties which he was officially called on to perform in 

 connection with the census of partial employment, 

 unemployment, and occupations. 



Dr. Baldwin M. Woods, professor of mechanical en- 

 gineering at the University of California was also ap- 

 pointed a member of the staff and acted until the end 

 of March 1938. He submitted on March 26 a report on 

 the researches in the natural sciences and technology in 

 which agencies of the Federal Government are en- 

 gaged. 



In addition to the members of the subcommittee and 

 the members of the staff mentioned in the forecoinc 

 paragraphs, the following persons have participated in 

 the collection of materials and the preparation of 

 reports : 



Buchanan, Robebt E., Potter, Andbbt A., 



Iowa Agricultural Expert- Piirdtte Vnivenity. 



ment Station. Roberts, Martin A., 

 Clemen, Rudolf A., Library of Congress. 



American University. Stouffeh, Samuel A., 

 Gray. Edward R., University of Chicago. 



Central Statistical Board. Wrtiot^oHBY, Willtam F., 

 Hughes, Raymond M., Institute for Government 



Iowa State College.^ Research.^ 



Jones, Charles H. Wiltwe, Charles M., 



University of Chicago, National Resources Com- 



Langbejn, Walter B., viittee. 



Geological Survey. 



Clerical and stenographic assistance: 



BiRKEL. Mrs. Peckham, Miss 



Ellis, Roy W. Shaw, Mrs. 



McGeail, JIiss Thomas. Miss 



The materials for the reports wei-e collected with the 

 cooperation of the various research agencies in the Gov- 

 ernment. 



> RcUred. 



A number of the executive departments and inde- 

 pendent commissions were asked to designate repre- 

 .sentatives from whom the subcoimnittee could obtain 

 information on the research activities of these agencies. 

 The members of the subcommittee and the staff also 

 consulted members of the national councils, universities, 

 research laboratories of industries, and research bureaus 

 of business organizations. 



The memorandum whicli was used in some of the 

 conferences with Federal agencies will indicate the 

 method which the subcommittee employed and its con- 

 ception of the kind of I'eport which it was to prepare. 

 The memorandum is as follows: 



Memorandum Describing an Inquiry With Regard to Rela- 

 tions of the Federal Government to Research 



With the approval of the Presideut the National Resources 

 Committee has undertaken the preparation of a report on Fed- 

 eral aids to research and the place of research (including nat- 

 ural and social science) in the Federal Government. The Na- 

 tional Resources Committee has appointed a subcommittee and 

 has engaged a staff to collect the materials necessary for this 

 report. 



It is the purpose of the subcommittee to secure memoranda 

 from a number of those who within the departments of the 

 Federal Government are engaged in the supervision or pursuit 

 of research projects. It will also secure statements regarding 

 research enterprises which, outside the departments of the 

 Government, are supported directly or indirectly by Federal 

 funds or are being carried on by agencies stimulated, though 

 not supported, by governmental bureaus. 



Through these memoranda and statements it is expected that 

 it will be pos.sible to discover the points at which the conditions 

 for research are most favorable and the points at which condi- 

 tions are less favorable than they can be made. Also, if there 

 is unnecessary duplication of effort or lack of cooperation or 

 failure of proper intercommunication between research agen- 

 cies the facts should be brought to light. 



Special attention will be given to problems of personnel. The 

 recruiting and classification of governmental employees will be 

 studied with the aid of the Civil Service and of the special 

 personnel officers, when such exist, in the various departments. 

 The opportunities afforded research workers in governmental 

 bureaus for continued study and for the pursuit of unprescribed 

 lines of inquiry will also be studied. 



One problem on which it is expected that the inquiry will 

 result in suggestions is the problem of coordinating research by 

 agencies outside the Government with research carried on di- 

 rectly under governmental auspices. Outside agencies such as 

 universities, commercial research departments, fouudations. and 

 scientific councils will be consulted and considered in their 

 relations to research by or with the aid of governmental agencies. 



It may be well to state explicitly that it is not the purpose 

 of the present inquiry to pass in any way on the quality of 



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