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courses and to produce motion pictures. Its 

 first conference was held last summer at San 

 Diego, California, on the problems of the 

 Pacific, and another is planned for next 

 summer on urbanization and ruralization. 



Science Service will not at present under- 

 take to publish any periodical of its own, for 

 it is believed that much better results can be 

 obtained by devoting the same effort and ex- 

 pense to reaching a wider range of readers 

 through newspapers and to directing atten- 

 tion to the various -well-edited periodicals of 

 popular science abeady in existence rather 

 than attempting to rival them. 



Science Service will aim to act as a sort of 

 liaison officer between scientific circles and 

 the outside world. It will endeavor to inter- 

 pret the results of original research as they 

 appear in the technical journals and proceed- 

 ings of societies in a way to enlighten the 

 layman. The specialist is likewise a layman 

 in every science except his own and he, too, 

 needs to have new things explained to him 

 in non-technical language. 



We may not all go so far as Tolstoy who 

 said that you can explain Kant to a peasant 

 if you understand Kant well enough. But it 

 is evident that part of the indifference of the 

 public to scientific questions is due to poor 

 presentation. When we can find writers who 

 know their subject and are willing to devote 

 as much attention to putting it in effective 

 form as though it were a poem or short story 

 tliere will be less reason to complain of lack 

 of interest. Science Service will spare no 

 pains or expense in the endeavor (1) to get 

 the best possible quality of popular science 

 writing and (2) to get it to the largest pos- 

 sible nurttber of readers. If in doing this it 

 can make both ends meet, so much the better. 

 If not, it will do it anyway. 



Through the generosity of Mr. E. W. 

 Scripps, of Miramar, California, the Science 

 Service has been assured of such financial sup- 

 port from the start as to insure its independ- 

 ence. It will not foe under the control of any 

 clique, class or commercial interest. It will 

 not be the organ of any one association. It 

 wiH serve aU the sciences. It will supply any 

 of the news syndicates. It wiU not indulge in 



propaganda unless it be propaganda to urge 

 the value of research and the usefulness of 

 science. 



The first board of trustees of Science 

 Service is composed as follows: 

 Three representatives of the Natwnal Academy of 

 Sciences 



Dr. A. A. Noyes, director, chemical researcli, 



California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 

 California. 



Dr. R. A. Milikan, professor of physics, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 



Dr. John C. MeTriam, president, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington, Washington, D. C. 

 Three representatives of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science 



Dr. D. T. MaoDougal, director, Desert Labora- 

 tory of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton, Tucson, Arizona. 



Dr. J. McKeen Oaittell, editor, Science and 

 Scientific Monthly, Garrison-'on-Hudson, New 

 York. 



Dr. George I. Moore, director, Missouri Botan- 

 ical Gardens, St. Lo\iis, Missouri. 

 Three representatives of The National Besearch 

 Council 



Dr. Vernon Kellogg, permanent secretary. Na- 

 tional Research Council, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. George E. Hale, director, Mount Wilson Ob- 

 servatory of the Carnegie Institution of Waah- 

 dngton, Pasadena, California. 



Dr. B. M. Yerkes, chairman, Research Informa- 

 tion Service, National Research Council, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 

 Representatives of the Scripps Estate 



Mr. E. W. Scripps, Miramar, California. 



Mr. B. P. Scripps, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Dr. W. E. Rdtter, director, Scripps Institution 

 for Biological Research of the University of 

 California, La Jolla, California. 



Representatives of the Journalistic Profession 



Edwin E. Gay, president. New Yorlc Evening 

 Post Company, New York City. 



Chester H. Rowell, former editor. The Fresno 

 Republican, Berkeley, California. 



William Allen White, editor. The Emporia Ga- 

 zette, Emporia, Kansas. 



Dr. W. E. Eitter is president of the board, 

 Mr. E. P. Scripps, treasurer, and Dr. Vernon 

 Kellogg, vice-president and chairman of the 

 executive committee. This committee is com- 

 posed of five members, one selected from each 

 group of trustees from the different organi- 



