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Page 4 - To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and stimulate progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to individual initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of science.
Page 2 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 66 - Let -^- = n, the ratio of the modulus of elasticity of the steel to that of the wood.
Page 4 - In general, to stimulate research in the mathematical, physical and biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine and other useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contributing in other ways to the public welfare.
Page 4 - Number 35. Apparatus used in highway research projects in the United States. Results of census by Advisory Board on Highway Research, Division of Engineering, National Research Council, in cooperation with the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 8 - Regarding improvement of appliances for measurement of the earth's magnetic elements by magnetic and electric methods. (Progress report.) Terr. Mag., vol. 19, No. 1, 1-18, 4 pis. (Mar. 1914). Washington. . The general magnetic survey of the earth. (Basis of lecture given before the first joint meeting of the American Geographical Society and the Association of American Geographers in New York, Apr. 3, 1914; New York Acad. Sci., Apr. 30, 1914; New York Elec.
Page 56 - The representative or mean section has a depth equal to the distance from the top of the beam to the center of the steel.
Page 43 - Number 25. Celestial mechanics. A survey of the status of the determination of the general perturbations of the minor planets.