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The National Academy of Sciences: The First Hundred Years, 1863-1963 (1978)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

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Front Matter (R1-R16)
1. The Academy's Antecedents (1-15)
2. Scientists and Scientific Organizations in Mid-Century America (16-42)
3. The Incorporation and Organization of the Academy (43-78)
4. The Government Calls upon the Academy (79-99)
5. Postbellum Years and the Crisis within the Academy (100-133)
6. The End of the Nineteenth Century (134-164)
7. The Academy Marks Its Semicentennial (165-199)
8. World War I and the Creation of the National Research Council (200-241)
9. The Research Council's Permanent Status and the Academy's New Home (242-280)
10. The Twenties: New Horizons in Science (281-316)
11. The Academy during the Great Depression (317-346)
12. The New Deal and the Science Advisory Board (347-381)
13. The Academy in World War II (382-432)
14. The Postwar Organization of Science (433-474)
15. The Years between the Wars (475-516)
16. The Academy in the Fifties -- Beginnings of the Space Age (517-564)
17. Academy Centennial (565-594)
Appendix A: Act of Incorporation: National Academy of Sciences (595-597)
Appendix B: Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at the Meeting Held for Organization, April 1863 (598-605)
Appendix C: Constitution and By-Laws of the National Academy of Sciences, Adopted January 1864 (606-613)
Appendix D: Members and Foreign Associates of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1963, and Year of Election (614-633)
Appendix E: Officers and Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1963 (634-643)
Appendix F: Executive Orders Defining the Duties and Functions of the National Research Council (644-647)
Appendix G: Chairmen of the National Research Council (648-649)
Appendix H: Executive Secretaries and Executive Officers of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council (650-651)
Appendix I: Executive Orders Relating to the Science Advisory Board (652-656)
Name Index (657-670)
Subject Index (671-694)