Abstract
THE National Research Council of the United States corresponds to, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in this country. It owes its being, as does our organisation, to the very urgent need, which the war made patent jto governments, of an organised and systematic Attempt to foster scientific research, to extend its jjjdustrial applications and, by co-operation and coordination, to do this on a national scale. The sixth annual report of the National Research Council, for the period ending June 30, 1921, shows clearly the extent to which this organisation has been carried in the United States. There are divisions based on political classification, e.g. Federal, foreign and States relations; on functional classification, e.g. educational relations, research extension and information service; and, finally, on a scientific and technological classification, e.g. physical sciences, engineering, chemistry and chemical technology, geology and geography, medical sciences, biology and agriculture, anthropology and psychology.
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W., J. The National Research Council of America. Nature 111, 31–32 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111031a0
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