...having as one of its primary functions whenever called upon by any department of the Government to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon...subject of science or art, the actual expense of such examinations, investigations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be...

...exceed fifty-six members and was charged : "whenever called upon by any department of the government, to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art. . . ." Through the years, the National Academy of Sciences has been enlarged, and a number of physicians...

...BESEAKCH COUNCIL (NBC) The National Academy's Charter, granted by the Congress in 18(i;>, provides that ". . . the Academy shall, whenever called upon...the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, und report upon uny subject of science or art, the actual expenses of such investigations, examinations,...

...President Lincoln. The Academy's specific purpose was defined in the Act of Incorporation, and it states that, "the Academy shall whenever called upon by any...Department of the Government, investigate, examine, and report upon any subject of science and art." Accordingly, when we learned of the study, which was...

...commissioner of patents: WHEREAS a section of the charter of the National Academy of Sciences provides that "The academy shall, whenever called upon by any...department of the government, investigate, examine and report Upon any subject of science or art," AND WHEREAS, at the request of the President of the...

...President Lincoln. The Academy's specific purpose was defined in the Act of Incorporation, and it states that, "the Academy shall whenever called upon by any...Department of the Government, investigate, examine, and report upon any subject of science and art." Accordingly, when we learned of the study, which was...

...of the Academy. Of particular relevance to 1*1 • 36 USC S 253. "The National Academy of Sciences shall ... whenever called upon by any department of...experiment, and report upon any subject of science or arc . ..." Id, _5/ 36 USC f 254. 6/ The mandatory language of this Executive Order is tempered somewhat...

...was established by Act of Congress, signed by President Lincoln on March 3, 1863. Its charter states that "the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any...experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art." Under this provision, the Academy dealt with many military problems during the Civil War, and since...

...in "lobbying" when the Academy is responding to the unique requirement of its Congressional charter that the Academy "shall, whenever called upon by any...experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art. . . ."In the House Committee Report last year on HR 15, reference was made to the fact that exemption...

...hoc groups. The Academy's congressional charter, under which the NRC operates, directs the Academy to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art" whenever called upon by any department of the Government. The Academy has been engaged in such studies...