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mittees, boards, and other groups are held 

 during the year. 



Professional activities: Total expenditures for 

 the operation of the Academy-Research Council 

 are approximately $15 million annually, about 

 one third of which is from private grants and 

 contracts and from endowment income, and the 

 remainder from Federal Government sources by 

 grant or contract for advisory services. These 

 expenditures include sums for conferences and 

 meetings of committees and boards, for the sup- 

 port of fellowships, for special projects, and 

 for general administration. In addition, many 

 millions of dollars are spent by other organiza- 

 tions in the support of science through fellow- 

 ships, grants-in-aid of research, and basic 

 research contracts upon advice rendered by the 

 Academy-Research Council. 



Funds for the general purposes of the Acad- 

 emy-Research Council have included a grant 

 of $5 million from the Carnegie Corporation in 

 1921, a part of which was used for construction 

 of the Academy-Research Council building, the 

 remainder serving as a permanent endowment. 

 Other funds for general purposes are : Agassiz 

 Fund, $50,000, bequeathed by Alexander Agassiz, 

 a charter member of the Academy; Billings 

 Fund, $26,000, bequeathed by Mary Anna 

 Draper in 1915; and Nealley Fund, $19,555, 

 bequeathed by George True Nealley in 1925. 



Trust funds for the support of research or 

 for the honoring of achievements in science are : 

 Alexander Dallas Bache Fund, $60,000, for 

 researches in physical and natural sciences ; 

 John J. Carty Fund, $25,000, to provide a gold 

 medal and monetary award not oftener than 

 once in two years to an individual for note- 

 worthy and distinguished accomplishment in any 

 field of science coming within the scope of the 

 Academy; Cyrus B. Comstock Fund, $15,000. 

 to provide a prize every five years for the most 

 important discovery or investigation in electric- 

 ity, magnetism, or radiant energy, or to aid 

 worthy investigation in these subjects; Henry 

 Draper Fund, $10,000, to provide a gold medal 

 not oftener than once in two years, and support 

 of investigations in astronomical physics ; Daniel 

 Giraud Elliot Fund, $8,000, to provide for a 

 gold medal and honorarium for the most meri- 

 torious work in zoology or paleontology pub- 

 lished each year; Wolcott Gibbs Fund, $10,545, 

 to provide assistance in the prosecution of 

 chemical research; Benjamin Apthorp Gould 

 Fund, $50,000, to provide assistance in re- 

 searches in astronomy ; Marcellus Hartley Fund, 

 $1,200, to provide a gold Public Welfare Medal 

 for eminence in the application of science to 

 the public welfare; Joseph Henry Fund, $47,163, 

 to provide assistance for meritorious investigat- 

 ors, especially in the direction of original 

 research; Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Fund, 



$43,741, to provide a gold medal and honorarium 

 for contributions to medical science ; Marsh 

 Fund, $20,000, for the promotion of original 

 research in the natural sciences; Murray Fund, 

 $10,000, to provide for an Alexander Agassiz 

 Gold Medal to be awarded for original contribu- 

 tion in the science of oceanography; J. Lawrence 

 Smith Fund, $10,000, to provide a gold medal 

 to be awarded not more often than once in 

 two years for important original investigations 

 of meteoric bodies, and grants to aid investiga- 

 tions of meteoric bodies ; Mary Clark Thompson 

 Fund, $10,000, to provide a gold medal for 

 important services to geology and paleontology ; 

 Charles Dolittle Walcott Fund, $5,000, to pro- 

 vide a bronze medal and honorarium for distin- 

 guished work in pre-Cambrian or Cambrian 

 life; James Craig Watson Fund, $25,000, to 

 promote astronomical science and to provide 

 a gold medal and honorarium for outstanding 

 contributions to astronomy; Kimber Genetics 

 Award, gold medal and honorarium, for achieve- 

 ment in the science of genetics ; Thomas Lincoln 

 Casey Endowment Fund, $298,080, for use in the 

 advancement of engineering in all its applica- 

 tions. 



Publications: The following serial publications 

 are available from the Printing and Publishing 

 Office, National Academy of Sciences-National 

 Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, 

 Washington 25, D. C. : (1) Proceedings of the 

 National Academy of Sciences, monthly, current 

 volume: 46, $12.50; volume 47 will be $17.50. 

 Managing Editor: Edwin B. Wilson. (2) News 

 Report, bimonthly, current volume : 10, $2. Edi- 

 tor : Wallace W. Atwood, Jr. (3) IGY Bulletin, 

 monthly, current issues : 31-42, $1.50 per single 

 subscription to science teachers and students, $2 

 to others. (4) Mathematics of Computation, 

 quarterly, current volume : 14, $8. Chairman, 

 Editorial Committee: H. Polachek. (5) Nuclear 

 Data Sheets, six times a year, third year of 

 publication, $20 for card stock edition ($34 by 

 first class mail), $17 for paper stock edition 

 ($25 by first class mail), air mail rates quoted 

 on request. (6) Nuclear Theory Index Cards, 

 six times a year, third year of publication, $7 

 by first class mail in United States and terri- 

 tories, $8 elsewhere, and $6 by third class mail 

 in United States or abroad. (7) Fire Research 

 Abstracts and Reviews, three times a year, 

 current volume : 2, free. Editor : Walter G. 

 Berl. Note: Monographs in series are also 

 published, there being approximately 800 num- 

 bers in print. 



The following serial publications are available 

 from American Geological Institute, 2101 Con- 

 stitution Avenue, Washington 25, D. C. : (8) 

 Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the 

 USSR, Earth Sciences Sections, six times a 

 year, current volume: 124, $27 to members of 



