Second report of the Science Advisory Board
Subtitle: September 1, 1934 to August 31, 1935
By: Science Advisory Board
Publisher: Science Advisory Board
Published: 1935
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Airships; Design and construction; Mines and mineral resources; Statistics; Ships; Collision damage; Research; Soil erosion; State universities and colleges; Patents; Railroads; Mining; Patents as Topic; Methods; Soil Erosion; Universities
Notes: "September 1, 1935."

Title from title page.
Table of contents: title: Contents -- I. Appointment of the Science Advisory Board -- II. Letter of transmittal to the President of the United States -- III. General report; title: National dependence of science -- Place of science in the government -- Need for science advisory service to the government -- Development of science advisory service -- Activities of the Science Advisory Board -- Future development of science advisory service -- Recommentations -- IV. Membership of the Board and its Committees -- V. Summaries of reports and actions of specific problems; title: A. The President -- a national program for putting science to work for the national welfare -- B. Department of Agriculture -- Weather Bureau -- Bureau of Chemistry and Soils -- Biological Abstracts -- C. Bureau of the Budget -- Surveying and mapping services of the federal Government -- Utilization of Federal appropriations to Land-Grant Colleges -- D. Department of Commerce -- Relations of patents to new industries -- Means for lessening the hazard of collision of ships in fog -- National Bureau of Standards -- E. Department of the Interior -- Mineral economics and statistics -- Bureau of Mines -- Economic resources of the Boulder Dam Region -- F. Joint Agencies -- Land-use problems -- Mineral policy -- G. Navy Department -- Civilian cooperation in research for the Navy -- Design and construction of airships -- H. Treasury Department -- Medical and health problems -- I. Special Bureaus and Agencies -- Railway Research -- J. Other activities of the Board -- Services of the Division of Engineering and Industrial Research of the National Research Council -- Additional Activities; title: VI. Appendices; title: 1. Report to the President of the United States upon a National program for putting science to work for the national welfare -- 2. Report to the Secretary of Agriculture of the Advisory Committee on the Weather Bureau -- 3. Memoranda and report of the Committee on the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils -- Memoranda - Soil erosion in its relation to other soil research and extension projects -- J.G. Lipman -- The Administration of research and extension activities related to soil erosion /-- J.G. Lipman -- 4. Report of the Committee on Mapping Services of the Federal Government -- 5. Report on Land-Grant colleges /-- Wm. Charles White -- 6. Report of the Committee on the relation of the patent system to the stimulation of new industries -- 7. Possibilities of developing mineral industries tributary to Boulder Dam /-- C.K. Leith and H.N. Eavenson -- 8. Conservation of minerals /-- C.K. Leith -- 9. Research problems in natural science bearing on national land planning /-- W.L.G. Joerg -- 1o. Summary of recent reports on natural resources /-- W.L.G. Joerg -- 11. The land of your possession /-- Isaiah Bowman -- 12. Report of the Committee on Medical and Public Health Problems -- 13. Report and recommendations of the Joint Committee appointed by the Science Advisory Board and the Regional Coordinating Committees of railway executives to study the matter of research methods and possibilies in the railway field -- 14. Financial report for the period September 1, 1934 to August 31, 1935-- VII. Index.