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HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION
Pages 4-7

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... The Pacific Coast Subcommittee of the Committee of One Hundred on Research of the American Association became the Executive Committee of this Conference. The Pacific Coast Research Conference at once offered its services to the Committee on Scientific Research which had just been appointed by the California State Council of Defense, and also to Councils of Defense in other Pacific Coast~States through the following resolution: "WHEREAS, It is the opinion of this Committee that the important scientific problems before men of science today are those problems relating to preparation for war which require scientific research; GTUEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That this Committee representing the scientific interest of the Pacific Division of the
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From page 5...
... The offer was accepted by the California State Council of Defense and special committees of the Conference were authorized to submit programs of investigations deemed necessary. In order to facilitate control and administration, the Committee on Scientific Research of the California State Council of Defense was enlarged by the addition of the members of the Executive Committee of the Pacific Coast Research Conference and of the directors of the state scientific and technical bureaus, and the control of the special committees of the Conference was turned over directly to the Committee on Scientific Research of the California!
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... Your committee has received detailed reports from each one of these subcommittees giving full information of investigation already in progress, of existing facilities and resources available to the State, and has accompanied these reports with a statement of financial needs not covered by existing facilities or sums of money. The sum total of the money required is estimated to be $106,750' for the first year and $35,250 for the second year.
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... Later $32,000 was appropriated for use upon other investigations approved in the budget adopted by the Committee, the funds being sent to the Comptroller of the University of California to act as trustee. The ending of the recent war found the Committee on Scientific Research of the State Council of Defense for California with a number of the more active and important of its research projects still under way, and by a redistribution of remaining funds it was possible to provide for the completion of the unfinished work.
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