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THE feature of most general interest in Dr. Vannebar Bush's report as president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington for the year ended October 31, 1947 (Year Book No. 46), is his review of the range of the Institution's activities, and particularly the relation of the Institution to Federal support. Dr. Bush points out that the Institution has always recognized that research stands or falls by the men who are responsible for its prosecution, and from its earliest days has consistently sought the exceptional man and provided him with facilities and resources to pursue problems which he discerned and by his own methods. Latterly, in establishing its own research centres, the Institution has recognized that such centres are of ultimate value in the search for knowledge only as they are utilized by groups of investigators including leaders of proved skill and acumen and younger men of real promise. Dr. Bush pays a high tribute both to the creative work of the Institution's scientific staff, and is also satisfied with the general plan of organisation of the work and with the effectiveness of its administration. Discussing next the termination at the end of the War as expeditiously as possible of all research for the Government, to enable the Institution to return to its own programmes of fundamental research and its policy of free dissemination of results, he considers the policy of the Institution of not seeking broad support for its research from federal funds in the light of the increasing support of fundamental investigation from Government funds.
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Carnegie Institution of Washington. Nature 162, 421–422 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162421a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162421a0