Report of the National Research Council

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - Research
 

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Page 4 - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is administered by a Board of Award consisting of representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The medal was executed by John Flanagan, of New York.
Page 34 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 169 - 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 - Science and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Research Council.
Page 20 - 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 52 - William H. Welch, director of the school of hygiene and public health of Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Md..
Page 61 - 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 63 - Council) was organized in 1916 at the request of the President by the National Academy of Sciences...
Page 34 - ... of, the United States Geological Survey, the United States Bureau of Mines, and the American Association of State Geologists were invited.
Page 63 - 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 head of the department immediately concerned will continue to cooperate in every way that may be required.

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