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PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. 1, October, 1947 
and Martin P. McGuire, Catholic University of 
America. 
Interesting comments upon the opportunities 
under the Act appear in a personal letter written 
to Senator Fulbright on March 10, 1947, by 
Harold J. Coolidge, executive secretary of the 
Pacific Science Board, National Research Council. 
His remarks follow: 
"The more I study your bill, the more I become 
convinced that Public Law 584 of the 79th Con¬ 
gress can open a new chapter in the field of inter¬ 
national scientific relations. 
"As you know, we are faced in this country 
with large numbers of young scientists, many of 
whom are keen to undertake fundamental re¬ 
search which can best be carried out in a foreign 
country. To such students the possibility of work¬ 
ing on ecological problems in New Guinea or 
zoogeography where Wallace did his field work 
represents nothing more than a naturalist’s dream, 
far from any hope of realization. In many fields 
of science, fundamental research came to a stand¬ 
still during the war, for obvious reasons. 
"I feel that there are two important kinds of 
help required to enable the qualified student to 
engage in field research. First, the assurance of a 
friendly reception and extension of certain facili¬ 
ties by the government of the foreign country 
concerned. This is a matter that can usually be 
arranged with the assistance of the State Depart¬ 
ment, and should not present great difficulties for 
Americans in most countries in the post-war 
world. Secondly, the highly difficult problem of 
finding funds to finance travel and field or labora¬ 
tory research in the foreign country where the 
research is to be undertaken. 
"The Fulbright Bill makes it possible through 
the Board of Foreign Scholarships, with the assist¬ 
ance of the State Department, to solve this serious 
problem in a way that should not only greatly 
benefit the student, as well as the foreign country 
involved, but should likewise assure the possibility 
of great strides in the advancement of fundamen¬ 
Editor’s 
Comment from readers has been aroused by the 
section from Utinomi’s bibliography on Micro¬ 
nesia printed in the July issue. Favorable remarks 
have been made concerning the value of these 
items to scientists now becoming interested in these 
new American island possessions in the Pacific. 
Readers have likewise raised the question, "How 
was it possible to print both Japanese and Euro¬ 
pean languages side by side in the journal?” . . . 
Frankly, the task of reproducing all these char¬ 
acters on the printed page was an exacting typo¬ 
graphic problem, which could not have been solved 
tal scientific knowledge and the training of com¬ 
petent men, particularly in the fields of the nat¬ 
ural and related social sciences. 
"You may remember my discussing with you 
fellowship needs in the Pacific Area. The Pacific 
Science Conference which met in Washington last 
June recommended that 'the continuing organiza¬ 
tion [Pacific Science Board] arrange for research 
fellowships at varying financial grades for compe¬ 
tent graduate students, and for grants-in-aid to 
established scholars, including local inhabitants, 
in the several fields of science involved, as a part 
of the mechanics of staffing research.’ . . . 
"Instead of the implementation of this recom¬ 
mendation being a distant vision, it now looks as 
if it might be made a firm reality through pro¬ 
posed operations under the provisions of your 
Bill. It is to be sincerely hoped that the money 
for use of fellowships under this Bill will not be 
diverted to bricks and mortar, or, as sometimes 
rumored, to the meeting of government expenses 
in foreign countries not directly related to the 
basic purposes of the splendid and far-reaching 
program which you had in mind. 
"It is also hoped that the money being spent by 
industrial firms on applied science, particularly 
scientific technology, will not reduce the oppor¬ 
tunity that awaits many hundreds of other Amer¬ 
ican scientists in foreign fields, and that can only 
be opened to them by those who administer the 
funds made available for 'studies, research, and 
other educational purposes’ under the Fulbright 
Bill. 
"I sincerely hope that provisions will be made 
to ensure the participation of well-known scien¬ 
tists on your Board of Foreign Scholarships. 
"Once more I wish to congratulate you on the 
importance to international science and educa¬ 
tion of Public Law 584.” 
Senator Fulbright, in acknowledging this letter 
on March 13, said, in part: "I am in accord with 
your views about the possibilities of the bill 
which I introduced.” 
Comments 
without the energetic aid of the printers. The 
services of two composing shops were needed, one 
to set up the Japanese and Chinese ideographs, 
and one to set up the translations and other pas¬ 
sages in roman characters. A reproduction proof 
of all the ideographs was taken. Then, as the 
roman matter was set up, the English compositor 
had to leave proper space for each of the several 
hundred oriental passages to be inserted. Page 
proofs of the roman passages were made, and the 
ideographs were then pasted, one after another, 
in the vacant spaces. Finally, full-page line cuts 
