The National Academy of Sciences; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; 1 The Academy's Antecedents; The European Academies and the Royal Society; The American Philosophical Society; The American Academy of Arts and Sciences; The College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Concern for a National University; The Columbian Institute; The National Institute; 2 Scientists and Scientific Organizations in Mid-Century America; The Smithson Bequest; Bache and Henry; The Program of the Smithsonian; Growth and Spread of Scientific Societies; Louis Agassiz and His Influence on American Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science3 The Incorporation and Organization of the Academy; ""The Lazzaroni"" and Their Influence; The Outbreak of the Civil War; The Permanent Commission; The Drafting of the Academy Bill; Reaction to the New Academy; The Organization Meeting; 4 The Government Calls upon the Academy; ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE (1863-1867); Early Problems and Activities; The Illness and Death of Bache; 5 Postbellum Years and the Crisis within the Academy; JOSEPH HENRY (1868-1878); Crisis within the Academy; The Hall Expedition to the Arctic
Dearth of Government RequestsThe Philosophical Society and the Cosmos Club; The Committee on Weights and Measures; Removal of Restriction on Membership; The Silliman-Whitney Controversy; The Centennial Observance; Illness and Death of Henry; Establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey; 6 The End of the Nineteenth Century; WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS (1879-1882); OTHNIEL CHARLES MARSH (1883-1895); The Allison Commission (1884-1886); Debate of an Expanded Role for the Academy; Efforts to Reorganize the Academy; WOLCOTT GIBBS (1895-1900); The American Forestry Problem
Recognition of the Academy as ""High Tribunal""7 The Academy Marks Its Semicentennial; ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1901-1907); State of Science at the Turn of the Century; Academy Efforts on Behalf of the Metric System; Efforts for the Extension of Forest Conservation; Academy Report on the Philippines; New Fields in Academy Membership; Hale and International Cooperation; IRA REMSEN (1907-1913); The Committee on Scientific Work under the Government; The National Conservation Commission; Preoccupation with Internal Affairs; Steps Toward an ""Academy Home""; Plans for a Commemorative History
The Semicentennial AnniversaryHale's Vision for the Future; 8 World War I and the Creation of the National Research Council; WILLIAM HENRY WELCH (1913-1917); Government Requests to the Academy; Organization and Staffing of the National Research Council; Resignation of Welch and Election of Walcott; CHARLES DOOLITTLE WALCOTT (1917-1923); The Academy and the Wartime Research Council; Funding of the Academy's War Effort; Military Research Problems; Postwar Plans; The Executive Order of 1918; The Carnegie Corporation Grant; National Research Fellowships; International Research Council
Notes
9 The Research Council's Permanent Status and the Academy's New Home
