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From page 652... ... 28 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 the physical data were available. Through the courtesy of the West- ern Electric Co., incipient fatigue failure will be studied by the microscope at extremely high magnifications. Read the entire page →
From page 653... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 29 vestigations in the pure science and an increase in the knowledge of the fundamental chemistry upon which the industries are based. It is the business of the division, devoted in part to chemical tech- nology, to attempt to take part in such development. Read the entire page →
From page 654... ... 80 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 of the committees of the union. - It is of importance that all actions taken by the union affecting scientific usages should have the sup- port of American chemists. Read the entire page →
From page 655... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 81. tion, other compounds of similar constitution are being studied. Read the entire page →
From page 656... ... 82' REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1025 The oxygen-oil investigation has been continued, principally on the line of determining the static charges acquired by liquids flowing at high velocities through orifices. Nine publications were issued during the year in connection with the work of this committee. Read the entire page →
From page 657... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 38 wealth, which depend largely on geological knowledge. The fol- Jowing. Read the entire page →
From page 658... ... 34 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 By means of the money thus contributed the oil geologists, work- ing through this division of the council, have funded for a year a number of projects calling for very limited personnel and cost. First of these is the microthermal study of oil shales and other car- bonaceous rocks. Read the entire page →
From page 659... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 85 Problems of the recovery of the oil in the " exhausted" oil fields. -- A limited number of billions of barrels of oil recoverable by present methods of exploitation remains in fields yet to be located by the geologist, a task in which the aid of researches is essential. There are yet more billions of barrels already discovered in the ground in our oil fields but not yet available on account of lack of knowl- edge of methods for its successful and profitable extraction. Read the entire page →
From page 660... ... 86 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 the tectonic standpoint in the Gulf-Caribbean region. In view of the important results to accrue to geology and geography, along with other sciences, it is greatly to be hoped that the Navy may be able to put the plan into effect during the coming year. Read the entire page →
From page 661... ... 1. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL =\| 87 Type cultures af microorganisms. -- The division has, in collabora- tion with the division of biology and agriculture, continued active efforts to assure: the safeguarding and maintenance of. Read the entire page →
From page 662... ... 88 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 in certain industries and other problems of similar nature, a new committee to give attention to this matter has been established, com- sisting of David L Edsall, chairman, dean of Harvard Medical School, Boston; William Irving Clark, jr., Norton Co., Worcester, Mass.; Haven Emerson, professor of public health administration, Columbia University, New York; H Read the entire page →
From page 663... ... NATIONAL BESEARCH COUNCIL - 39 legal situation along these general lines will have such influence on developments in the future as thoroughly to warrant its undertak- ing. The division, at its annual meeting, therefore, continued the committee on medicolegal problems and instructed it to formulate plans for a survey of the medicolegal situation, with estimates of the funds necessary for that. Read the entire page →
From page 664... ... 40 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 - International Biological Abstracts Journal. -- For the support of the biological abstracts service the Rockefeller Foundation has ap- propriated a sum of $350,000 for a period of 10 years, $20,000 of this being available for the first year, 1925. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has made a grant of $500 toward the project, and a number of the national reséarch societies in biol- ogy have pledged several hundred dollars each. Read the entire page →
From page 665... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 4} develop a comprehensive study of the whole subject of aquiculture, with a view to production of food, mother-of-pearl, pelts, and other products in our fresh-water streams, lakes, swamp areas, and especially in farm ponds. This involves problems in botany, in- vertebrate and vertebrate zoology, pathology, sanitation, chemistry, meteorology, geology, water engineering, soil science (especially in relation to the water table in agricultural and forest lands) Read the entire page →
From page 666... ... 42 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 Committee on family records. -- The committee on family records held a meeting in New York City on October 18 for the purpose of formulating a set of questionnaire blanks to be used by the Huntington Family Association in obtaining a record of the phys- ical, mental, and temperamental characteristics of individual mem- bers of the association which might later be used as data for an intensive study of the results of heredity and environmental influence in a large family group. These blanks have been printed and are now being used in the survey. Read the entire page →
From page 667... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 438 in the International Congress of Soil Science to be held in Wash- ington in May, 1927. The division at its annual meeting this spring authorized such cooperation. Read the entire page →
From page 668... ... 44 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL: ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY The year has been characterized by good progress in several re- search enterprises carried on by committees of the division, as weil as by serious thought on the part of the division as a whole looking toward increasing its effectiveness as an agency for selecting and pushing the research projects most deserving of support. Scientific problems of human migration. -- Under the direction of the committee on scientific problems of human migration, several groups of research workers have been very active. Read the entire page →
From page 669... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 45 tance in the direction first mentioned. A grant of $16,000 having been made by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial for a second year's work, it is now proposed to continue intensive training of a few deaf subjects for an entire year, in order to see whether these methods are capable of practical use in the interests of the deaf. Read the entire page →
From page 670... ... 46 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 in research studies itself as to stimulate personnel research in indus- try and elsewhere, to labor for scientific methods, to provide means of publication through its Journal of Personnel Research, and to promote contact between personnel research workers by means of conferences, etc. In pursuance of this last aim the federation held in May, at the Washington headquarters of the National Research Council, two conferences -- one on problems of college student per- sonne! Read the entire page →
From page 671... ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 4% ing authorities in various jurisdictions, with employers of profes- sional drivers, and with Secretary Hoover's Conference on High- way Safety. Though funds for the research projects mapped out by the committee have still to be obtained, some contribution has already been made by bringing existing psychological knowledge regarding color-blindness, etc., to the attention of bodies responsible for the standardization of signs, and by promoting the spirit of cooperation among psychologists working on tests for drivers. Read the entire page →

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... 28 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1925 the physical data were available. Through the courtesy of the West- ern Electric Co., incipient fatigue failure will be studied by the microscope at extremely high magnifications.