I should like to discuss with you for a few moments certain re lationships of pure and applied science research to public policies and above all the national necessity for enlarged activities in sup port of pure science research. Huxley was perhaps not the first but at least he was the most forceful in his demand that preliminary to all understanding and development of thought was a definition of terms. Men in the scien tific world will have no difficulty in making a distinction between the fields of pure and applied science. It is, however, not so clear in industry or in our governmental relations and sometimes even in our educational institutions.