OPENING REMARKS ,, , , 



Emilio Castagneto 



University of Naples j;:; ..,:;,,-; ^.^ j 



Naples, Italy ••. 



It is for no merit or for any particular talents of my own that I have the 

 privilege of being the first to take the floor upon the opening of this symposium, 

 but it is in the name of and on behalf of Professor Vincenzo Caglioti, President 

 of the Italian National Research Council, that I am here to offer greetings and a 

 welcome from the council itself to the authorities, to the ladies, and to all the 

 participants who have come to this meeting in such large numbers from all parts 

 of the world. .... , . , 



I am delighted to have been entrusted with this charge and thus to have the 

 opportunity of expressing all my regard and admiration to you of my friends 

 whom I met for the first time over 35 years ago, to you who have joined them 

 over the years, and especially to you in the ranks of young men who, in a certain 

 sense, I have seen grow and mature and give a great impetus to the studies of 

 naval hydrodynamics. 



The Italian National Research Council, which came into being under the 

 initiative and direction of Guglielmo Marconi, is the Italian center which pro- 

 motes and coordinates studies and research work in all fields of pure and ap- 

 plied science, and above all in those of physics and engineering, guiding the 

 trends of their technical development. To achieve its goals the Italian National 

 Research Council depends on its own laboratories and staff and to a greater ex- 

 tent on University and private institutes with which it draws up contracts for 

 research. In addition, it maintains close collaboration with the technical state 

 departments and their related laboratories, especially those under military ad- 

 ministration. In particular, for its research on naval hydrodynamics the Italian 

 National Research Council relies on the Rome Towing Tank, and in addition it 

 collaborates with the Hydrodynamic Center of The Navy and in general with the 

 technical boards of that department. 



In their method of operating with respect to this particular naval branch, there 

 is a close resemblance between the Italian National Research Council and the 

 Office of Naval Research, which, together with the Italian Navy and the Rome 

 Towing Tank, was a promoter of this conference. It is also for these very reasons 

 that the Research Council is particularly pleased to act as a collaborator for the 

 symposium. The broadmindedness of ONR in basing its policies, the practicability 



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