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spirit, The New York Academy of Sciences will help create "A FUTURE BETTER THAN THE PAST" through the WORLD SCIENCE CENTER. The World Science Center will enable the Academy to increase and expand the vital work it is now doing as a unique international "clearing house of science." It has been doing this for a century and a half, but never so promptly, effectively and on such a large scale as will be carried out through the expanded facilities of the World Science Center.

The Academy's present facilities are quite inadequate to the programs of the present, much less the future. The World Science Center will provide a physical plant as urgently needed by scientists as mankind needs the economic and social progress it will help achieve.

The New York
Academy of Sciences

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The New York Academy of Sciences is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit membership association with more than 20,000 members from all 50 of the united States and 94 other nations. Since it was founded in 1817, it has been a self-supporting organization

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