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IN NATURE for May 29, 1919, an account was given of the organisation of the National Research Council of the United States of America. Supported during the war largely by the Government, but now entirely by private bodies and firms (it has lately received a grant of 5,000,000 dollars from the Carnegie Corpora tion), this body owes its existence to a trend of opinion by no means confined to the capitalist classes which maintain it. The American Federa tion of Labour explicitly and emphatically pro fessed its belief in the fundamental importance and beneficent results of scientific research—more especially research in pure science—in a mani festo quoted in the Report for 1918–19 of our own Department of Scientific and Industrial Re search. This unanimity on the part of employer and employed in their recognition of the import ance for the development of American industries of the promotion of research gives additional weight to the imposing array of facts and figures assembled by the National Research Council in the bulletin under notice, which deals with funds, other than Federal and State funds, available in 1920 for this purpose.
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Endowment of Scientific Research in the United States1. Nature 107, 719–720 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107719a0
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