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The National Academy of Sciences:

The First Hundred Years, 1863-1963
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Publication Year:1978

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Front Matter i-xvi  
1. The Academy's Antecedents 1-15 (skim)
2. Scientists and Scientific Organizations in Mid-Century America 16-42 (skim)
3. The Incorporation and Organization of the Academy 43-78 (skim)
4. The Government Calls upon the Academy 79-99 (skim)
5. Postbellum Years and the Crisis within the Academy 100-133 (skim)
6. The End of the Nineteenth Century 134-164 (skim)
7. The Academy Marks Its Semicentennial 165-199 (skim)
8. World War I and the Creation of the National Research Council 200-241 (skim)
9. The Research Council's Permanent Status and the Academy's New Home 242-280 (skim)
10. The Twenties: New Horizons in Science 281-316 (skim)
11. The Academy during the Great Depression 317-346 (skim)
12. The New Deal and the Science Advisory Board 347-381 (skim)
13. The Academy in World War II 382-432 (skim)
14. The Postwar Organization of Science 433-474 (skim)
15. The Years between the Wars 475-516 (skim)
16. The Academy in the Fifties -- Beginnings of the Space Age 517-564 (skim)
17. Academy Centennial 565-594 (skim)
Appendix A: Act of Incorporation: National Academy of Sciences 595-597 (skim)
Appendix B: Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at the Meeting Held for Organization, April 1863 598-605 (skim)
Appendix C: Constitution and By-Laws of the National Academy of Sciences, Adopted January 1864 606-613 (skim)
Appendix D: Members and Foreign Associates of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1963, and Year of Election 614-633 (skim)
Appendix E: Officers and Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1963 634-643 (skim)
Appendix F: Executive Orders Defining the Duties and Functions of the National Research Council 644-647 (skim)
Appendix G: Chairmen of the National Research Council 648-649 (skim)
Appendix H: Executive Secretaries and Executive Officers of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council 650-651 (skim)
Appendix I: Executive Orders Relating to the Science Advisory Board 652-656 (skim)
Name Index 657-670 (skim)
Subject Index 671-694 (skim)
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