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The Organization and Activities of the Committee on Scientific Research of the State Council of Defense of California Bulletin of the National Research Council (1923) / Chapter Skim
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CONTINUATION OF CALIFORNIA COMMITTEE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Pages 41-41

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... The value of such a committee was shown during the war as a co-ordinating agency in making available for the urgent needs of the state the numerous sources of scientific strength outside of the state departments, pa~ticularly upon matters which required thoroughgoing investigation before being incorporated into the administrative policy of the government. As a factor outside of the state government, but bent upon assisting the government in every way, this committee seems to be in a particularly favorable position to bring the resources of these various agencies to bear upon certain of the unsolved scientific problems of state administration and of public welfare.
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