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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1327 



One hundred dollars to Dr. Olive C. Hazlett, of 

 Mount Holyoke College, m support of her work 

 on the theory of hypercomplex numbers and in- 

 variants. 



PHYSICS 



Two hundred dollars to Professor A. A. Knowl- 

 ton, of Reed College, in aid of a determination of 

 the relation between chemical composition and 

 magnetic properties in Heusler alloys. The par- 

 ticular problem is to find the precise proportions in 

 which the elements must be mixed in order to get 

 the maximum value of magnetic intensity at satu- 

 ration. 



One hundred dollars to Professor John C. Shedd, 

 of Occidental College, dn aid of a further study of 

 snow crystals, similar to that which he has already 

 published. 



ASTRONOMY 



Six hundred dollars to Professor Philip Fox, of 

 Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University, 

 in support of his work on the photographic determi- 

 nation of stellar parallaxes. This is a renewal of 

 the grant made for the same purpose in 1917, but 

 the use of which was interrupted by the war. 



One hundred dollars to Professor Anne S. 

 Young, of Mount Holyoke College, for the determi- 

 nation of the positions aaid proper motions of stars 

 from photographic plates already taken. The work 

 is being done in cooperation with the Yerkes and 

 McCormiek Observatories. 



Two hundred and fifty dollars to M. Ferdinand 

 Oanu, of Versailles, France, to carry forward 

 toward completion the very significant studies upon 

 the classification of bryozoa in which he is col- 

 laiborating with Dr. R. S. Bassler at the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Two hundred and fifty dollars to Mr. Frank B. 

 Taylor, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a field study 

 of the moraines of recession in the St. Lawrence 

 Valley. 



ZOOLOGY 



Two hundred amd fifty dollars to Professor S. I. 

 Kornhauser, of Denison University, for a continu- 

 ation of his work on the sexual characteristics of 

 the membracid insect Thelia himaculata. The 

 first part of this work was published in September, 

 1919, in the Journal of Morpliology. 



Two hundred dollars to Dr. P. W. Whiting, of 

 St. Stephen's College, for breeding outfit and tem- 

 perature apparatus to be used for genetic and 

 cytological researches on EpJiestia and Hadro- 

 hraoon. 



BOTANY 



I Five hundred dollars to the editorial board of 

 Botanical Abstracts for editorial and oflJce ex- 

 penses in connection vpith the preparation of manu- 

 scripts. The general interests of botany, in both 

 its national and international aspects, would seem 

 to be best served at this time by aiding this ab- 

 stract journal for another year. 



Five hundred dollars to Dr. I. W. Bailey, of the 

 Bussey Institution, Harvard University, for aid in 

 investigations upon: (1) Myrmecophytism ; par- 

 ticularly certain supposed symbiotic relations be- 

 tween ants and higher plants. (2) Relations be- 

 .tween ants and fungi, particularly ants as dis- 

 seminators of disease. (3) Cytology of the cam- 

 bium. The entomological work involved wiU be 

 idone in collaboration with Professor W. M. 

 Wheeler, and the headquarters for the summer 

 ,will be at the British Guiana Tropical Research 

 Station of the New York Zoological Society. 



ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY AND EDtJCATION 



One hundred dollars to Mr. S. D. Robbins, of 

 the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, for meas- 

 urements of blood pressure of a trephined stam- 

 merer. 



Two hundred dollars to Professor Daniel W. La- 

 Eue, Stroudsburg State Normal School, Pennsyl- 

 vania, in support of experimental work on a pho- 

 netic alphabet. 



, Two hundred dollars to Professor Margaret F. 

 Washburn, Vassar College, for a study of emo- 

 tional characteristics of ceTtain racial groups in 

 New York City. 



, Two hundred dollars to Professor Joseph Peter- 

 son, George Peabody College for Teachers, Ten- 

 nessee, in support of a situdy of the qualitative dif- 

 ferences in the mentality of whites and negroes. 



Two hundred dollars to Professor A. A. Schaeffer, 

 University of Tennessee, in support of an experi- 

 mental study of orientation and the direction of 

 movement of animals, and particularly of the 

 ' ' spiral path ' ' in man. 



PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 



One hundred dollars to Professor Theodore 

 Hough, University of Virginia, in support of his 

 studies with Dr. J. A. Waddell on blood changes 

 after severe hemorrhages. 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor Carl 

 J. Wiggers, Western Reserve University, in sup- 

 port of his investigations of the cardiac function 

 by optical registration. Joel Stebbins, 



Secretary 



