New NSF‐Columbia Project

During and since World War II, according to an announcement from the National Science Foundation, an expansion of the Russian scientific and technical vocabulary has led to a need for more adequate specialized Russian‐English scientific dictionaries than are now available. A series of studies which will include a systematic survey of existing Russian‐English and English‐Russian dictionaries are being undertaken in New York City by Columbia University under contract with the Foundation, and it has been suggested that the program may eventually lead to the compilation of a new dictionary to satisfy the needs of English‐speaking scientists. The Foundation has allocated $39,300 for the Columbia project, which is described as being only one phase of a larger NSF program to facilitate the translation and distribution of Russian scientific information among scientists in the United States.