CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

202 Junipero Serra Boulevard *: Sisnford, California 94305 Telephone (415) 321-2052
June 19, 1974

Professor Edwin Mansfield
Department of Economics

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Penn. 19104

Dear Dr. Mansfield:

Our conference on Science Indicators is over and it turned out to be much
more interesting and fruitful than any of us dared to hope. Because of
the success of the conference, we have strong regrets that you were not
able to attend, However, we thought you would be interested in a brief
account of the proceedings and our future plans.

As soon as possible, we shall send the first versions of the papers that
have come in. There is a firm plan to publish by late spring 1975, a
small volume with these papers (suitably revised) and others to come in
later, Our quintet (Robert K. Merton, Joshua Lederberg, Arnold Thackray,
Harriet Zuckerman and myself) here at the Center who organized this
conference will meet in Jerusalem In January 1975 for two weeks to put
the finishing touches on the volume,

We received serious encouragement from 0. D. Duncan (who participated in
the conference) to continue thinking in terms of an ongoing activity. The
idea arose that Science Indicators should constitute itself as a subcommittee
under the umbrella of the Center on Social Indicators, of which Duncan is
chairman, We have begun to plan along these lines: that if and when we
become such a body, we would like to contact both the National Academy of
Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and possibly some
international groups as well. John Ziman, as you may know, participated
in the conference and suggested that at a later stage he could bring up
the matter with the British Science Research Council. I should add that
several members of the National Science Board showed great interest in

the Conference--Lloyd Cooke made that plain as he sat through the whole

of it--and Bob Brainard, the man responsible for the green booklet, also
played a very positive role. During the second day, Emilio Daddario came
to the Center with an assistant from OTA and he also addressed our group
after the Friday dinner at the Stanford Faculty Club. Several other NSF
observers were on hand too. For your information I enclose a final list
of the participants and the agenda of the conference. Naturally, we would
welcome any comments or suggestions you care to make.

Again, I cannot tell you how deeply sorry I am that you could not be with
us. With warm regards,

Your,

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