NBS

QUESTIONNAIRE ON ESTABLISHMENT OF A SECTION ON GENETICS WITHIN THE
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

 

The following questionnaire wes mailed, with a minimum of comment:
A. Would you favor the formation of a Genetics Section in the N.A.S.?
OyYes ONo (OUndecided or indifferent
8. {f such a section were formed would you be inclined to joining it yourself?
CYes ©No (CuUndecided or indifferent

The questionnaires were malled to the members of sections 7, 8, and 14
(Botany, Zoology, Blochem!stry)

EERE EES

Summary of returns: (Yes = 2, No = 1, Undecided etc = 0).

 

Section Members Returns 22 21 20 12 11 10) «CO Ol OOO Ht 2 20 le 2= O-
7 ht 37 k 6 2 Oo 10 4& h & 3% 2@ 8 9 Ww #12 «1
8 54 hy} 9 8 .2 0 8 3 3 6 2@ 28 12 FJ VW 9 1
1h 4S ht } 21 5 o & O 0 1 0 35 1 5 k 27 10
Sum 139 Wg Wy 35 9 0 22 TT 7 2 5 TT 2 2 29 58. 32

Question f: 29:58:32 in percent 24:49:27 no, yes, ?

-Canclusion: Opinion in sections 7 and 8 Is almost evenly divided on the desirability
of a new section on genetics. Section 14, which may be less vitatly interested,
favors [t strongly but would lose only | number to it. However, 21 members would
themselves join such a section if it existed, and some of the undecided group might
also. Perhaps most important were many verbal. comments that the present
organization was not satisfactory, and that better means than further splintering
are needed to tie together basic interests in experimental biology.

1960

Joshua Lederberg.
Stanford