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Page 73 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 182 - To gather and collate scientific and technical information, at home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies, and to render such information available to duly accredited persons.
Page 11 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art...
Page 182 - To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and stimulate progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to individual initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of science.
Page x - ... the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 72 - Science and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Research Council.
Page 76 - It is a quarterly magazine,1 conducted under the direction of a committee of the conference of superintendents and principals of American schools for the deaf.
Page 66 - William H. Welch, director of the school of hygiene and public health of Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Md..
Page 152 - Council, after the adoption of this article, two members shall be elected to serve for three years, two for two years and two for one year ; and annually thereafter two members shall be elected for three years.
Page 90 - ... of, the United States Geological Survey, the United States Bureau of Mines, and the American Association of State Geologists were invited.