• Front Matter R1-R13

• 1 The Academy's Antecedents 1-15

• 2 Scientists and Scientific Organizations in Mid-Century America 16-42

• 3 The Incorporation and Organization of the Academy 43-78

• 4 The Government Calls upon the Academy 79-99

• 5 Postbellum Years and the Crisis within the Academy 100-133

• 6 The End of the Nineteenth Century 134-164

• 7 The Academy Marks Its Semicentennial 165-199

• 8 World War I and the Creation of the National Research Council 200-241

• 9 The Research Council's Permanent Status and the Academy's New Home 242-280

• 10 The Twenties: New Horizons in Science 281-316

• 11 The Academy during the Great Depression 317-346

• 12 The New Dealand the Science Advisory Board 347-381

• 13 The Academy in World War II 382-432

• 14 The Postwar Organization of Science 433-474

• 15 The Years between the Wars 475-516

• 16 The Academy in the Fifties--Beginnings of the Space Age 517-564

• 17 Academy Centennial 565-594

• APPENDIX A Act of Incorporation: National Academy of Sciences 595-597

• APPENDIX B Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at the Meeting Held for Organization in the Chapel of the New York University on the 22nd, 23rd,and 24th days of April 1863 598-605

• APPENDIX C Constitution and By-Laws of the National Academy of Sciences, Adopted January 1864 606-613

• APPENDIX D Members and Foreign Associates of theNational Academy of Sciences,1863-1963, and Year of Election* 614-633

• APPENDIX E Officers and Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1963 634-643

• APPENDIX F Executive Orders Defining the Duties and Functions of the National Research Council 644-647

• APPENDI X G Chairmen of the National Research Council 648-649

• APPENDIX H Executive Secretaries and Executive Officers of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council 650-651

• APPENDIX I Executive Orders Relating to the Science Advisory Board: Establishment, July 31, 1933; Appointment of Additional Members, May 28, 1934; and Continuation, July 15, 1935 652-656

• Name Index 657-670

• Subject Index 671-694

" APPENDIX B Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at the Meeting Held for Organization in the Chapel of the New York University on the 22nd, 23rd,and 24th days of April 1863 ." The National Academy of Sciences: The First Hundred Years, 1863-1963 . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1978 .

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