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A number of policies for the co-ordinated devel¬ 
opment of scientific research in the Pacific were 
adopted by the Pacific Science Conference of the 
National Research Council, which met at the Na¬ 
tional Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C., 
on June 6-8, 1946. More than one hundred mem¬ 
bers of the conference from various divisions met 
with a number of liaison members from the State 
Department, War Department, Army Air Forces, 
Navy Department, U. S. Coast Guard, Depart¬ 
ment of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, 
Department of Commerce, U.S. Commercial Com¬ 
pany, U. S. Office of Education, U. S. Public 
Health Service, Smithsonian Institution, American 
Council of Learned Societies, American Council on 
Education, and Social Science Research Council. 
Special guests were invited from a number of 
foundations interested in Pacific research. 
The general and specific recommendations 
adopted by the Council, given below, should be of 
interest to all persons and organizations concerned 
with the systematic and methodical advancement 
of scientific studies in this vast area. 
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS 
1. Declassification 
That this Conference strongly recommend 
that, insofar as practicable, all Pacific Island 
materials and information now the property 
of government agencies and organizations be 
declassified and made available to recognized 
scientific organizations in accordance with 
recommendations from the proposed Pacific 
Science Survey. 
2. Conservation 
That throughout the Pacific area every effort 
be made: 
a. To protect and preserve areas, objects and 
living species of flora and fauna having 
scientific, historic, or aesthetic significance, 
through appropriate conservation legisla¬ 
tion, including the establishment of na¬ 
tional parks, nature monuments, and re¬ 
serves. 
b. To take necessary measures to insure the 
preservation of flora and fauna in their 
native environment. 
To set aside certain wilderness areas that 
are to be maintained inviolate except for 
essential scientific studies. 
d. To determine which species are in danger 
of extinction and to take special measures 
for their protection and preservation. 
e. To avoid the deliberate introduction of 
exotics wherever indigenous fauna or flora 
will be endangered, and to keep records of 
the intentional and accidental introduction 
and spread of exotic forms of animal life. 
/. To minimize accidental introductions, by 
more effective quarantine efforts. 
g. To apply caution in the use of insecticides 
(such as DDT), rodenticides (such as 
1080), herbicides, and other chemical con¬ 
trols of organisms, and to carry out thor¬ 
ough researches on the effects of such 
chemicals on all forms of life, including 
independent investigations before, during, 
and after the applications. 
That conservation regulations and the im¬ 
portance of protecting vanishing species from 
extinction be brought to the immediate atten¬ 
tion of the establishments of the Armed 
Forces to prevent indiscriminate shooting or 
other practices that might cause the extinction 
of vanishing species of flora and fauna. 
3. Fellowships 
That the continuing organization arrange 
for research fellowships at varying financial 
grades for competent graduate students, and 
for grants-in-aid to established scholars, in¬ 
cluding local inhabitants, in the several fields 
of science involved, as a part of the me-, 
chanics of staffing research. 
That funds be made available to foster the 
interchange of information on the physiology, 
biochemistry, and biophysics of plants of im¬ 
portance in the Pacific area, to allow personal 
contact in this field between workers of vari¬ 
ous nationalities, and to make possible the 
translation and publication of research results 
obtained during the war in former enemy and 
enemy-occupied territories. 
4. The Pacific Foundation War Memorial 
That the Pacific Science Conference approve 
the concept of the Pacific Foundation: "Es- 
Recommendations of Pacific Science Conference. 
National Research Council 
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