The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Current Operating Status
ARCHIVES HOME

ACCESS POLICIES & SERVICES

COLLECTIONS

PRESIDENTS OF THE ACADEMIES

FOUNDING OF THE NAS & ITS EARLY WORK

MILESTONES IN ACADEMIES' HISTORY

LOCAL SEARCH


Central Policy Files, 1946-1949: Files List Part 2

DIVISIONS OF THE NRC

BIOLOGY & Agriculture

American Institute of Biological Sciences
1948; 1947
Committee on Handbook of Biological Data: 1949
Proposed: 1946
General: 1949

Committee on Forestry: 1946

Committee on Human Heredity: 1946

Committee on Naples Zoological Station: 1947

Committee on Physiology under Natural Conditions: 1947

Committee on Survey of Plants for Precursors of Cortisone
Proposed: 1949

Deterioration Prevention Center: 1947; 1946

Directory: 1949; 1948; 1947

Executive Committee: 1946

Food & Nutrition Board
1948; 1947
Meetings: 1949; Dec 1946
General: 1949; 1946
Meetings: Annual
1949: Minutes: Drafts
1949: Reports of NRC Representatives
1949: General
1948
1947
1946

Membership: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

General: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

CHEMISTRY & Chemical Technology

Appointments: Members of Division: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

Committee on Annual Tables of Constants & Numerical Data: 1946

Committee on Cortical Hormone Research: 1949

Committee on Synthesis of Cortical Hormones: 1946

Meetings: Nov 1949; Apr 1946

Panel on Nation's Potential for Basic Research in Chemistry: 1949

Prevention of Deterioration Center
1948
NRC-ONR Symposium on Wood: 1949
General: 1949

General: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

ENGINEERING & Industrial Research

Advisory Board on Quartermaster R & D
Committee on Quartermaster Problems: 1948
Committee on Clothing: 1949
Committee on Environmental Protection: 1949
Committee on Fibers & Fabrics: 1949
Committee on Foods: 1949
Committee on Footwear: 1949
Committee on Leather: 1949
Committee on Packing Packaging &Preservation: 1949
Committee on Plastics & Elastomers: 1949
Committee on Textile Finishing: 1949
Meetings: 1949
General: 1949

Appointments: Members of Division: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

Board for Prosthetic & Sensory Devices
Committee on Prosthetic Devices: 1946
Committee on Sensory Devices: 1946
General: 1946
Building Research Advisory Board (BRAB)
1949; 1948; 1947
Proposed: 1946

Committee on Aims Organization & Activities of Division: 1949

Committee on Artificial Limbs
Advisory: 1949; 1948; 1947
Research Committee: Meetings: Apr 1947
Research Committee: General: 1947

Committee on Engineering Materials: 1946

Committee on Fatigue in Industry: 1946

Committee on Quartermaster Problems: Advisory Subcommittees
Clothing: 1948; 1947
Environmental Protection: 1948; 1947
Foods: 1948
Footwear: 1948; 1946
Germicides Insecticides & Biologicals: 1948; 1947
Leather: 1948
Leather & Footwear: 1947
Mechanical Problems: 1948
Plastics: 1948; 1947
Textiles: 1948; 1947
Committee on Quartermaster Problems
Meetings: 1948
Meetings: Minutes: 1947; 1946
General: 1948; 1947; 1946

Committee on Sensory Devices: 1948; 1947

Committee on Ship Construction: 1946

Conference on Electrical Insulation: 1946

Conference on Relationships between NRC Division of Engineering & Industrial Research & Affiliated Societies: Nov 1948

Highway Research Board: 1948; 1947; 1946

Reports to Administrative Committee: 1946

Transportation Safety Research Board: Proposed: 1949

General: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

FOREIGN Relations

Academies & Councils Abroad
Royal Society of London: Newton Tercentenary Celebration: 1946

Committee on International Scientific Unions: 1946

Conference on Resumption of International Congresses & Conferences: 1946

Greek Penicillin Mission: 1946

International Congresses
Pacific Science: 7th: 1949; 1946
Tropical Medicine: 1946
General: 1964
International Organizations
Indian Science Congress Assn: 1946
Internatl Statistical Institute: 1946

"International Relations in Science": 1946

International Unions
Dues: 1946
ICSU: General Assemblies: 4th: London: 1946
ICSU: General: 1946
General: 1946

General: 1946

GEOLOGY & Geography

American Geological Institute
1949; 1948
Proposed: 1947

Appointments: Members of Division: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

Committee on Common Problems of Genetics Paleontology & Systematics
Jt w Division of Biology & Agriculture: 1946

Committee on Declassification & Salvage of Maps & Documents: 1947; 1946

Committee on Geography: Adv to ONR
Meetings: 1949
General: 1949

Committee on Interrelations of Pleistocene Research: 1949

Geographic Centennial Studies Committees: 1949

Meetings: Annual Meeting
Apr 1949
Apr 1948
Ma y1947

US Committee for Study of Paricutin Volcano: 1946

General: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

INTERNATIONAL Relations

Academies & Councils Abroad
1947
Natl Institute of Sciences of India: 1948
Science Council of Japan: 1949
General: 1949; 1948

Appointments: Members of Division: 1949; 1948; 1947

Committee on Exchange of Scientific Literature: 1947

Committee on Inter-American Scientific Publication
AAAS-NRC: 1949; 1948; 1947

Committee on International Scientific Unions: 1949; 1948; 1947

Committee on Scientific Equipment: 1949; 1948; 1947

Committee on UNESCO
Bulletins: 1949;1948
Bulletins: Requests: 1947
Bulletins: General: 1947
Meetings: 1949; 1948
Meetings: Minutes: 1947: Sept; May
Memoranda: 1949; 1948; 1947
UNESCO Fellowship Program: 1948; 1947
General: 1949; 1948; 1947

Exchange of Publications: 1949; 1948

Exchange of Scientific Personnel
1949; 1947
German: Nachtsheim & Stubbe: 1948
German: Warburg: 1948
General: 1948
International Congresses
African Regional Scientific Conference: 1949
Animal Production: 1949
Anthropology & Ethnology: 3rd: 1948
Biometric Conference: 1st: 1947
Emergency World People's Congress: 1st: 1947
Geology: 18th: 1948; 1947
Instruments & Measurements: 1949
Pacific Science Congress: 7th (1949): 1949; 1948; 1947
Pan American Congress of Architects: 6th: 1947
Pan American Congress of Pediatrics: 2nd: 1949
Photogrammetry: 6th: 1948
Population & World Resources in Relation to Family: 1948
Protection of Nature: UNESCO-IUPN: 1949
Psychology: 12th: 1948
Royal Society Scientific Information Conference: 1948
Tropical Medicine: 4th: 1948; 1947
World Congress on Family & Population: 1st: 1947
Intenational Organizations
Biometric Society: 1947
General: 1949; 1948; 1947
International Science Policy Survey of State Dept
NRC Portion of Study: Circular: Replies: 1949
General: 1949
International Unions
Agronomic Sciences: Proposed: 1949
Dues: 1949; 1948; 1947
International Unions: ICSU
Committee on Science & Its Social Relations: 1948; 1947
Executive Committee: 1949; 1948
General Assemblies: 5th: Copenhagen: 1949
History &Description: 1949
International Unions: ICSU: Inter-Union Commissions
Ionosphere: 1948
Radio-Meteorology: 1948
Standards Units & Constants of Radioactivity: 1949; 1948
International Unions: ICSU
General: 1949; 1948; 1947
International Unions
Physics: 1948
Protection of Nature: 1948
Radio: 1949; 1948; 1947
General: 1949;1948; 1947

Meetings: Jun 1948

General: 1949; 1948; 1947

MATHEMATICS & Physical Sciences

Appointments: Members of Division: 1949; 1948; 1947

Committee on Nuclear Science: 1948; 1947

Glossary of Nuclear Energy Terms: 1949; 1948

General: 1949; 1948; 1947

MEDICAL Sciences

Appointments: Members of Division: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

Chairman: Illness of Chairman & Question of Successor: 1949

Committee on American Registry of Pathology: 1946

Committee on Arthritis & Rheumatic Disease: Ad hoc: 1949

Committee on Atomic Casualties
1949; 1948; 1947
Beginning of Program: 1946
Committee on Aviation Medicine
Crash Injury Research: 1948; 1947; 1946
Subcommittee on Safety in Flight: 1947
General: 1948; 1947; 1946
Committee on Blood & Blood Derivatives
Conference on Preservation of Formed Elements & of Proteins of Blood: Proceedings: Jan 1949

Committee on Chemotherapeutic & Other Agents: 1946

Committee on Drug Addiction & Narcotics: 1949

Committee on Growth: 1949; 1947; 1946

Committee on Pathology: 1949; 1948

Committee on Problems of Alcohol: 1949

Committee on Radiation Cataracts: 1949

Committee on Veterans Medical Problems: 1946

Directory: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

Medical Advisory Committee: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

Meetings: Annual Meeting
Apr 1949
May 1948
May 1947
May 1946

Reports: Activities: 1949; 1948; 1947; 1946

General: 1949 ;1948; 1947; 1946

PHYSICAL Sciences

Central Policy Files 1946-1949 Part 1
Central Policy Files 1946-1949 Part 3

Archives@nas.edu

RSS News Feed | Subscribe to e-newsletters | Feedback | Back to Top