NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR JULY 1, 1923-JUNE 30, 1924 ESTABLISHED IN 1916 AT THE REQUEST OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE CHARTER OF Report of the National Research Council-Continued. Organization and personnel-Continued. Divisions of the council-Continued. Division of physical sciences___. Division of engineering and industrial research... Division of chemistry and chemical technology. Division of geology and geography - - - - Division of medical sciences___. Division of biology and agriculture....... Division of anthropology and psychology REPORT OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR JULY 1, 1923, TO JUNE 30, 1924 (Prepared by Vernon Kellogg, permanent secretary, with the assistance of the chairmen of divisions) INTRODUCTION The National Research Council has completed another year of activity, the eighth of its existence, with a definite record of work accomplished and new work put under way. This work has been carried out along the lines and by the methods which have gradually come through experience to be recognized as probably the most advantageous ones which the council can adopt. These lines of work and methods involve and maintain a wide contact on the part of the council with the scientific organizations and men of this country and of various foreign countries, these organizations and men representing both fundamental science and its applications. The actual membership of the council, appointed by the president of the National Academy of Sciences, is chiefly composed of accredited representatives of more than 70 national scientific and technical societies, nominated directly by these societies. Constant and stimulating contact with the colleges and universities of the country is maintained, as also with the Government's various scientific bureaus. Relations with foreign scientific workers and organizations are closely maintained through the International Research Council and its affiliated international unions representing different special fields of science. The council is the official representative in this country of the International Research Council. The council has been intrusted during the year with the responsibility of expending considerable sums of money appropriated by various foundations, industrial concerns, and individuals for the support of various special undertakings in the way of the promotion, organization, and carrying out of scientific work and research. The total budget for the year has been something more than half a million dollars. (The money provided and expended for the erection and equipment of a new building, referred to later, for the housing of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council is not included in this budget.) Among the more notable new gifts and pledges of funds during the year for the support of special undertakings of the council have been one of $625,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation for the continued support of research fellowships in physics, chemistry, and mathematics for a second five-year period |