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THE Year Book No. 42 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, covering the year July 1, 1942–June 30, 1943, includes the reports of the Executive Committee, the auditors, and of the president, together with reports of departmental activities and co-operative studies. The president's report points out that although the total research effort of the Institution is more than twice as great as in the year just prior to the War, the efforts of the research staff are now so largely devoted to war research that the regular programmes have been severely curtailed. The services of seventy members of the Institution staff have been loaned for war work in other organizations. The Geophysical Laboratory is now completely devoted to a war programme for which its facilities and staff are specially fitted, and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism is similarly occupied. The Mount Wilson Observatory has several important programmes under way utilizing the special knowledge of astronomers and physicists, and the war effort continues to demand more outstanding talent in the physical sciences than is available and to utilize to a lesser extent men from the biological sciences.
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Carnegie Institution of Washington: Annual Report. Nature 154, 308 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154308a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154308a0