FUNDS FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 



The Research Information Service of the National Research 

 Council has recently compiled information about funds for 

 scientific research. From this compilation it appears that there 

 are hundreds of special funds, trusts, or foundations for the 

 encouragement or support of research, in the mathematical, 

 physical and biological sciences, and their applications in 

 engineering, medicine, agriculture and other useful arts. The 

 income from these funds, which amounts annually to at least 

 fifty million dollars, is used principally for prizes, medals, 

 research scholarships and fellowships, grants and sustaining 

 appropriations or endowments. 



So numerous have been the requests to the Research Council 

 for information about sources of research funds, availability of 

 support for specific projects and mode of administration of 

 particular trusts or foundations, that the Research Information 

 Service has created a special file which it is proposed to keep 

 up to date in order to answer the questions of those interested 

 in such funds. . Furthermore, in order to give wider publicity to 

 the immediately available information about research funds, 

 the Council has issued a bulletin under the title ''Funds avail- 

 able in 1920 m the United States of America for the encouragement 

 of scientific research.'' 



Inquiries concerning the bulletin or for information about 

 research funds should be addressed. National Research Council, 

 Information Service, 1701 Massachusetts Avenue, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



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