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A P P E N D I X Executive Orders
FDefining the Duties and
Functions of the
National Research C~nci!
EXECUTIVE ORDER
The National Research Council was organized in ~9~6 at the request of the
President by the National Academy of Sciences, under its congressional
charter, as a measure of national preparedness. The work accomplished by
the Council in organizing research and in securing cooperation of military
and civilian agencies in the solution of military problems demonstrates its
capacity for larger service. The National Academy of Sciences is therefore
requested to perpetuate the National Research Council, the duties of which
shall be as follows:
1. In general, to stimulate research in the mathematical, physical and
biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering,
agriculture, medicine and other useful arts, with the object of increasing
knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contributing in
other ways to the public welfare.
2. To survey the larger possibilities of science, to formulate comprehen-
sive projects of research, and to develop effective means of utilizing the
scientific and technical resources of the country for dealing with these
projects.
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3. To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order to
secure concentration of effort, minimize
. . · .. .. . . .
duplication, and stimulate prog-
ress; out In act cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to individual
initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of science.
4. To serve as a means of bringing American and foreign investigators into
active cooperation with the scientific and technical services of the War and
Navy Departments and with those of the civil branches of the Government.
5. To direct the attention of scientific and technical investigators to the
present importance of military and industrial problems in connection with
the war, and to aid in the solution of these problems by organizing specific
researches.
6. To gather and collate scientific and technical information, at home and
abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies, and to render
such information available to duly accredited persons.
Effective prosecution of the Council's work requires the cordial collabora-
tion of the scientific and technical branches of the Government, both military
and civil. To this end representatives of the Government, upon the nomina-
tion of the National Academy of Sciences, will be designated by the Presi-
dent as members of the Council, as heretofore, and the heads of the
departments immediately concerned will continue to cooperate in every way
that may be required.
THE WHITE HOUSE
~~ May, ~9~8
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON
(No. 2 8 59)
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646 1 Appendix F
EXECUTIVE ORDER
AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 2859
OF MAY II, 1918, RELATING TO THE
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Executive Order No. 2859 of May ~ I, 1918, relating to the National Research
Council, is hereby amended to read as follows:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
"WHEREAS the National Research Council (hereinafter referred to as the
Council) was organized in ~ 9 ~ 6 at the request of the President by the National
Academy of Sciences, under its congressional charter, as a measure of national
preparedness; and
"WHEREAS in recognition of the work accomplished by the National
Academy of Sciences through the Council in organizing research, in furthering
science, and in securing cooperation of government and non-government
agencies in the solution of their problems, the Council has been perpetuated by
the Academy as requested by the President in Executive Order No. z859 of
May ~ I, ~9~8; and
"WHEREAS the effective prosecution of the Council's work requires the close
cooperation of the scientific and technical branches of the Government, both
military and civil, and makes representation of the Government on the Council
desirable:
"NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the
United States, it is ordered as follows:
"1. The functions of the Council shall be as follows:
"(a) In general, to stimulate research in the mathematical, physical, and
biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering,
agriculture, medicine, and other useful arts, with the object of increasing
knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contributing in other
ways to the public welfare.
"(b) To survey the broad possibilities of science, to formulate comprehensive
projects of research, and to develop effective means of utilizing the scientific
and technical resources of the country for dealing with such projects.
"(c) To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order to
secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and stimulate progress;
but in all cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to individual
initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of science.
"(d) To serve as a means of bringing American and foreign investigators into
active cooperation with the scientific and technical services of the Department
of Defense and of the civil branches of the Government.
"(e) To direct the attention of scientific and technical investigators to the
importance of military and industrial problems in connection with national
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defense, and to aid in the solution of these problems by organizing specific
researches.
"~0 To gather and collate scientific and technical information, at home and
abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies, and to render
such information available to duly accredited persons.
"2. The Government shall be represented on the Council by members who
are officers or employees of specified departments and agencies of the
executive branch of the Government. The National Academy of Sciences shall
specify, from time to time, the departments and agencies from which
Government members shall be designated, and shall determine, from time to
time, the number of Government members who shall be designated from each
such department and agency. The head of each such specified department or
agency shall designate the officers and employees from his department or
agency, in such numbers as the National Academy of Sciences shall determine,
who shall be members of the Council, but shall designate only those persons
who are acceptable to the Academy."
This order shall not be construed as terminating the tenure of any person
who has heretofore been designated as a member of the Council.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 10, 1956.
/signed/ DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
(No. ~o668)
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