The Survey in Operation

Abstract

A gleaning from records of committee meetings, working papers, and the like may give some sense of the development of the program, as well as give aid to those planning such studies. These papers are on deposit in the American Physiological Society. The first formal actions of the Survey were taken at a meeting of the Central Committee in Washington in late March, 1952, at which the functions of the Pilot Phase were set forth; it was decided to limit the geographical coverage of the Survey to the United States and Canada; and the major decision was reached that, for defining the scope of the Survey, physiology is ‘the study of functional processes in living organisms,’ and that General and Comparative Physiology and Plant Physiology were explicitly to be included.