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Scientific Activities: Within each component of government of the federal system exist numerous agencies of a scientific-educational nature which have to do with water resources or whose activities touch upon water factors. Geological, weather, agricultural,forestry, navigation, health, and many o bureaus and divisions of the federal governn and the states are conducting researches, f lishing data, directing educational campaigns, suggesting specific policies and activities wl affect water as well as other resources. T functional purposes and activities, which o: overlap in their interests, must be well coo nated so that a more complete and consisi collection of scientific activities data, greater consistent policies, greater economy of effort, and more c structive results may be realized from the t activity.
The story was told in money and manpower. In 1953 the United States invested approximately $5.5 billion in scientific activities research and development activities; in 1968, according to a projection by the National Science Foundation, the figure would be close to $25 billion. While the U.S. gross national product was growing at an annual rate of 5.3%, the national investment in research and development activities was growing at 12% per year. During the same period the proportion of the work force engaged in science and engineering also doubled.
The Scots also influenced ideas concerning scientific activities methodology and scientific activities ediication and set an example in founding new scientific activities journals, both professional and popular, which were to proliferate during the century. In the period from 1700 to the end of the 19th century. Scottish writers and scientists considerably aided the transmission of scientific activities ideas to the masses and to the specialist through the agency of publications like the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Edinburgh Review, the Philosophical Magazine. and Nicholson's Journal.
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