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The Philippine National Science Society. - The Philippine National Science Society shall be a corporate body composed of prominent scientists and technical men and shall have the following functions:
(1) To stimulate research in the mathematical, physical, biological and other basic sciences and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge and of contributing in other ways to the public welfare;
(2) To give encouragement to individual initiative in research as fundamentally important to the advancement of science; and
(3) To gather and collate scientific and technical information at home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies and to render such information available to duly accredited persons.
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