Research in pure science

The National Academy of Sciences is making a strong effort to raise a national research endowment of $20,000,000 for research in pure science. The committee under which this movement is being fostered is under the chairmanship of Herbert Hoover and contains the names of such well-known scientists and engineers as John J. Carty, Frank B. Jewett, Gano Dunn, Robert A. Millikan and Henry S. Pritchett in addition to many names of prominent financiers and executives. Such an endowment will make possible uninterrupted investigations in pure science which now are necessarily limited.