ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS FOR THE WAR*

Abstract

IN America we have two principal scientific societies which are broadly representative of all the fields of science and which are rather parallel to the Royal Society of London and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences, has asked me to deliver his personal message to the president of the Royal Society of London, Sir Henry Dale, and in addition he requested me to express the admiration which is felt by the members of the National Academy of Sciences for the magnificent manner in which the scientific men of Great Britain have thrown the whole weight of their energies and abilities to master the innumerable technical problems arising in this War. He wanted me to assure you that in so far as we can do likewise, we in America are making a sincere effort to handle our similar problems and co-operatively to supplement the great work which you are doing.