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year for a term of 4 years. The members of the Grants Committee are chosen 

 from among the various sciences so that every principal field is represented. 

 1 11 October of each year a note is published in Science, stating that the Asso- 

 ciation gives grants and that instructions and blanks for making applications 

 can be obtained from the office of the Permanent Secretary. Early in De- 

 cember the Permanent Secretary sends copies of all applications received to 

 each member of the Grants Committee. The Grants Committee reports its 

 recommendations, through the office of the Permanent Secretary, to the 

 Council at the annual meeting of the Association, and the Council formally 

 votes the grants. The grants are usually for amounts not exceeding $200, 

 and they are often for aid in completing research already well under way or 

 for which funds have been provided in part from other sources. Each re- 

 cipient of a grant is required to report to the Association on the results 

 obtained with its aid. 



Since 1935 the Association each year has made available to each affiliated 

 academy for grants in aid of research an amount approximately equal to 

 $0.50 for each of its members who is also a member of the Association. The 

 funds for the grants are appropriated by the Council. The academies decide 

 on the grants they desire to make and notify the office of the Permanent 

 Secretary, which transmits to them the amounts made available under the 

 appropriation by the Council. 



The Association makes these funds available to the academies because 

 experience has shown that they contribute efficiently to the advancement of 

 science. Through the affiliated academies the Association is able to extend 

 its assistance very widely and to aid many persons who would not otherwise 

 be reached. 



Prizes 



The Association awards two prizes each year, "The Thousand Dollar 

 Prize" provided by an anonymous friend of the Association for a paper of 

 high importance presented before a scientific session at the annual meeting, 

 and the "Theobald Smith Award," provided by the Eli Lilly Company, of 

 Indianapolis, Ind., for a distinguished contribution to medical science by a 

 person under thirty-five years of age. This award is made at summer 

 meetings. 



The recipients of the Thousand Dollar Prize, their fields and the subjects 

 of their papers for which the prizes have been awarded are as follows : 



1923. Leonard Eugene Dickson (mathematics). "The Theory of Numbers." 



1924. (1) Edwin P. Hubble 1 (astronomy). "The Spiral Nebulae." (2) L. R. Cleve- 

 land 1 (biology). "The Physiology of Termites and their Intestinal Protozoa." 



1925. Dayton C. Miller (physics). "The Ether-drift Experiment." 



1926. George D. Birkhoff (mathematics). "Mathematical Criticism of some Physical 

 Theories." 



1 Shared equally the prize for 1925. 



