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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1434 



physicists, geologists, engineers and others for 

 the recent literature in their respective fields. 

 The craving of these men for contact with the 

 rest of the scientific world is very great. At 

 various times scientific groups in this country 

 have suggested the desirability of sending lit- 

 erature from this country to Russian scientists. 



These suggestions have now resulted in the 

 formation of an American Committee to Aid 

 Russian Scientists with scientific literature. 

 The committee has arranged with the American 

 Relief Administration, of which Mr. Herbert 

 Hoover is chairman, to receive the literature 

 collected by the committee and assume the 

 entire care and cost of its overseas transporta- 

 tion and delivery to the distributing agency in 

 Moscow. 



The literature will be distributed in Russia 

 among the universities, scientific societies and 

 individual scientific investigators by a special 

 committee representing the Academy of Sci- 

 ences and other recognized Russian scientific 

 organizations in cooperation with the American 

 Relief Administration which has representa- 

 tives in Moscow, Petrograd, Kiev, Kliarkov, 

 Kazan and other university and academic 

 centers. 



The American Committee to Aid Russian 

 Scientists is a voluntary and temporary organ- 

 ization of scientific men. Its activities will 

 continue only until the regular channels for 

 the shipment of scientific literature to Russia 

 are reopened. It has no funds for the pur- 

 chase of scientific books or scientific periodicals. 

 It must appeal, therefore, to the generosity of 

 the scientific societies of America, government 

 and state scientific bureaus, individual scien- 

 tists and publishers of scientific books. 



The committee desires chiefiy to obtain scien- 

 tific books, scientific periodicals, authors' re- 

 prints, publications of government and state 

 scientific bureaus, scientific institutions and uni- 

 versity presses which are of an original scien- 

 tific character or contain technical information, 

 and which have appeared since 1914. 



There is in Russia a fairly large number of 

 scientific institutions. It is out of the question 

 at the present time to undertake to supply ade- 

 quately all those institutions with literature, 

 but the committee hopes to provide at least 

 six copies of each publication, since it feels that 



this number may meet at least the more urgent 

 needs of the Russian centers of scientific en- 

 deavor at Moscow, Petrogi-ad, Kazan, Kiev, 

 Odessa and a few other principal university 

 cities. If more than six copies can be spared, 

 so much the better. On the other hand, if this 

 number should be burdensome, a smaller num- 

 ber of copies will be of service. 



The committee has at its disposal only a 

 limited fund to cover the necessary clerical 

 work. It will, therefore, appreciate it if the 

 contributors of literature will cover the cost of 

 its transportation to New York, from which 

 point all cost of handling and shipment will 

 be borne by the American Relief Administra- 

 tion. 



The committee hopes that the response to this 

 request will be whole-hearted and universal. 

 The assistance that American scientists can give 

 to the Russian scientists who are in distress, 

 besides being a good Samaritan act, will be a 

 real contribution to the progress of science. It 

 may also be the means of re-establishing the 

 normal exchange of scientific results between 

 the Russian and American scientists, and will 

 be a fine manifestation of the cooperation of 

 men in science throughout the world. 



Contributors should send, in triplicate, with 

 each consignment a list of the publications for- 

 warded by them. These lists, together with all 

 letters containing advices of shipments, express 

 and shipping receipts, should be addressed to 

 the American Relief Administration, Russian 

 Scientific Aid, 42 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 



The publications themselves should be sent 

 by express, or, if very heavy, by freight, to 

 the American Relief Administration, care of 

 Gertzen Company, 138 Jane Street, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Requests for further information should be 

 sent to the American Committee to Aid Russian 

 Scientists, 1701 Massachusetts Avenue, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Vernon Kellogg, 



Chairman 



L. 0. HOWAED, 



David White, 

 Raphael Zon, 

 American Committee to Aid Russian 

 Scientists with Scientific Literature 



