Report of Proceedings - National Academy of SciencesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1923 - Science |
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... grants is ample assurance that this grant will be well spent . No other application for a grant is before the committee . It is respectfully requested that the academy take action on both of the above recommendations . For the committee ...
... grants is ample assurance that this grant will be well spent . No other application for a grant is before the committee . It is respectfully requested that the academy take action on both of the above recommendations . For the committee ...
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... Grant No. 1. To the Lick Observatory , Mount Hamilton , Calif . , Dr. W. W. Campbell , director , the sum of $ 500 , as a contribution toward the sum of $ 4,000 required for a Ross photographic zenith telescope for latitude variation ...
... Grant No. 1. To the Lick Observatory , Mount Hamilton , Calif . , Dr. W. W. Campbell , director , the sum of $ 500 , as a contribution toward the sum of $ 4,000 required for a Ross photographic zenith telescope for latitude variation ...
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... grants have been made : 229. H. Nort , Gouda , Holland , $ 200 . For counting the stars on the Franklin Adams charts ... grant has been canceled at the request of Doctor Bowie because of Government appropriations to carry on the work ...
... grants have been made : 229. H. Nort , Gouda , Holland , $ 200 . For counting the stars on the Franklin Adams charts ... grant has been canceled at the request of Doctor Bowie because of Government appropriations to carry on the work ...
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... Grant used for part payment of salary of garden attendant . Genetical studies on cenothera and Shepherd's purse are being con- tinued extensively , especially with linkage in the former and duplication of factors and sterility in the ...
... Grant used for part payment of salary of garden attendant . Genetical studies on cenothera and Shepherd's purse are being con- tinued extensively , especially with linkage in the former and duplication of factors and sterility in the ...
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... grant of $ 500 made from the Watson fund at the fall meeting of the academy for the maintenance of the Interna- tional Latitude Observatory at Ukiah , can be repaid in full to the academy , in view of the fact that the Congress has ...
... grant of $ 500 made from the Watson fund at the fall meeting of the academy for the maintenance of the Interna- tional Latitude Observatory at Ukiah , can be repaid in full to the academy , in view of the fact that the Congress has ...
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Page ix - 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, 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 163 - 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 74 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page i - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 124 - ... at home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies and to render such information available to duly accredited persons. Effective prosecution of the council's work requires the cordial collaboration of the scientific and technical branches of the Government, both military and civil. To this end, representatives of the Government, upon the nomination of the National Academy of Sciences, will be designated by the President as members of the council, as heretofore, and the heads...
Page 78 - Science and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Research Council.
Page 42 - Cort, of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University.
Page ix - That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, by-laws, and rules and regulations ; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institution, and to report the same to Congress.
Page 89 - PROCEEDINGS is the official organ of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and of the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL for...
Page 9 - The search for truth is in one way hard and in another easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully nor miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of Nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.