Science and Research in Indiana University 
It has been more than a third of a century since Indiana 
University began active cooperation with the citizens and in- 
dustrial interests of the state by supplying them with expert 
information in certain fields of science and by conducting or 
directing researches on problems whose solution was solicited. 
For a quarter of a century the number of questions and prob- 
lems offered for solution increased from year to year at about 
the same rate as the increase in the number of students en- 
rolled in science and in the number of instructors on the staff 
of the science departments of the University. Under these 
conditions each department could, and did, render the service 
demanded — in its own way, independently of other depart- 
ments. But with the recent tremendous increase in the num- 
ber of questions demanding solution and in the amount of re- 
search work that needs be done, an increase during the past 
few years that has far outstripped the growth of the state in 
population, and the University in the size of its science facul- 
ties and their laboratory space and equipment, the University 
finds that it must organize and further equip its science staff 
in order to serve the state most efficiently. Indeed, the need 
of organization was apparent some ten years ago and at that 
time was met in part by the creation of the Waterman Insti- 
tute for Research in Indiana University and further by the 
organization of a University Research Committee. The fact 
that one of the members of the University Committee was then 
chairman of the Research Committee of the Indiana State 
Council of Defense and later Director of Research in the Af- 
filiated Colleges of Indiana and Chairman of the Research 
Committee of the Indiana Academy of Science has tended to 
delay the formal and definite organization which the Univer- 
sity now announces as The Bureau of Science Service . 
Object of the Bureau of Science Service 
Perhaps the most conclusive argument for it is the fact 
stated above, that after a third of a century of science service 
the departments which have been giving it independently find 
it necessary to combine and organize to function more effici- 
ently in meeting the rapidly increasing demand. Without 
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