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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)

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APPENDIX Executive Secretaries and H Executive Officers of the J\lational Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council PAUL BROCKETT Assistant Secretary, NAS Executive Secretary, NAS CARY T. HUTCHISON Executive Secretary, NRC JOHN JOHNSTON Executive Secretary, NRC A. O. LEUSCHNER Secretary, NRC HARRY O. WOOD Acting Secretary, NRC VERNON L. KELLOGG Secretary, NRC Permanent Secretary, NRC Secretary Emeritus, NRC ALBERT L. BARROWS Assistant Secretary, NRC Executive Secretary, NRC 650 Apri11 , 1 9 1 3 -November 1 3 ,1 93 3 November 14, 1933-June 30, 1944 Sep tember 20 ,1 9 1 6 -January 1 7 ,1 9 1 8 February 1,1918-April 15,1919 April 16, 1919-August 12, 1919 August 19,1919-September 30,1919 October 1, 1919-June 22, 1920 June 23, 1 920-December 3 1, 1931 January 1, 1932-August 8, 1937 October 1, 1920-April 20, 1934 May 1,1934-November 7,1942

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Appendix H 1 65 1 W. H. KENERSON Acting Executive Secretary, NRC Executive Secretary, NRC Executive Secretary, NAS and NRC GEORGE B. DARLING Executive Secretary, NAS and NRC G. DONA LD M KID Acting Executive Secretary, NAS and NRG June 13, 1946-February 28, 1947 RAYMOND L. ZWEMER Acting Executive Secretary, NAS Executive Secretary, NRC Executive Secretary, NAS and NRC G. DONALD MEID Acting Executive Secretary, NAS and NRC S. DOUGLAS CORNELL Executive Secretary, NAS and NRC November 9, 1942-April 29, 1943 April 30, 1 943-June 30, 1944 July 1, 1 944~ctober 31, 1945 November 1, 1 945-June 12, 1946 March 1, 1947-April 26, 1947 March 1, 1947-April 26, 1947 April 27, 1947-June 30, 1950 July 1,1950-November 16,1952 November 17, 1952-June 30, 1965

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