NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
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D. G. CoNKLiN, Chairman, Princeton University, Embryology, Cytology. 
S. A. Forbes, University of Illinois, Entomology, Ichthyology, 
Ornithology. 
C. A. KoEOiD, University of California, Protozoology, Parasitology. 
F. R. LiLLiE, University of Chicago, Embryology, Marine Biology. 
T. H. Morgan, Columbia University, Experimental Zoology, Genetics. 
G. H. Parker, Harvard University, General Zoology, General Physiology. 
J. Reighard, University of Michigan, Ecology, Ichthyology. 
H. M. Smith, Commissioner of Fisheries, Washington. 
As now constituted, the Committee represents predominantly pure zoology 
as contrasted with applied and universities rather than technical institutions. 
This is due in part to the fact that there has hitherto been a greater lack of 
cooperation anid organization in pure zoology than in applied and in part to 
the facts that applied science must be developed on a foundation of pure 
science and that uniV'fersities must supply most of the investigators for all 
lines of scientific research. Many zoological subjects of economic impor- 
tance, not now represented directly on this Committee, are organized under 
separate bureaus, divisions or surveys of the general Government or of the 
several States — such as the United States Bureaus of Animal Industry, Bio- 
logical Survey, Entomology, Fisheries, and the Agricultural and Biological 
Stations and the Fish and Game Commissions of the various States. Fur- 
thermore, the Committees of the Research Council on Agriculture, Medicine, 
and Physiology deal with many problems which are essentially zoological. 
Many zoological investigators are at work in fields occupied by these different 
organizations and to a large extent the work and the workers which are left 
to the Committee on Zoology represent the residue of zoological science after 
these more practical subjects have been taken away. 
Our Committee has attempted to establish cooperative relations with many 
of these organizations and to avoid conflicts with all of them. Wherever 
work is already being done by any existing organization it is the desire of the 
Committee on Zoology to assist in that work in any way possible and not to 
duplicate it. The members of the Committee are in contact with or have 
knowledge of the majority of the zoological investigators of this country and 
in many cases it would be possible for the Committee to recommend to these 
National or State organizations investigators or students for particular lines 
of work or to find laboratory facilities for the investigation of special problems. 
2. Suggestions for National Service. — During the war the immediate needs 
cf the nation take precedence over all other aims and the practical and eco- 
nomic applications of research must to a large extent supersede the extension 
of knowledge for its own sake. Many zoologists hiave turned from their 
customary duties to some form of national service; several are doing impor- 
tant work with the Food Administration, others have taken up research work 
in some of the governmental bureaus or State Commissions, still others have 
