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Fellowships of limited duration have been 

 established as follows: 



Sulphur Eesearch Fellowship in plant pathol- 

 ogy. $1,000 per annum for three years; ex- 

 pires 1916. Established by the Union Sul- 

 phur Co., of N. Y. 



Pulverized Limestone Research Fellowship. 

 $600 per annum for three years; expires 

 1917. Established by Thomas A. Edison. 



Potash Eesearch Fellowship. $1,000 per annum 

 for three years; expires 1917. Established 

 by German Kali "Works. 



Sodium Nitrate Eesearch Fellowship. $700 ap- 

 proximately per annum for three years; ex- 

 pires 1917. Established by the Nitrate Propa- 

 ganda. 



The Amo-Phos Eesearch Fellowship. $600 per 

 annum for three years; expires 1918. Estab- 

 lished by the American Cyanamide Co., 

 Buffalo. 



The Soy Bean Eesearch Fellowship. $600 per 

 annum for three years; expires 1918. Estab- 

 lished by the Murphy Varnish Co., Newark. 



New Jersey Zinc Company Fellowship. $1,000 

 per annum for three years; expires 1919. 

 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Arthur T. 

 Hadley, President. 



Dana Fund. $24,000 (ultimately). Available 

 for original investigation in geology. 



Hadley University Fund. $1,030. Available 

 for research in general. 



Elias Loomis University Fund. $314,000. 

 Available for payment of salaries of astro- 

 nomical observers and the cost of reducing 

 and publishing observations. 



Seessel University Fellowship Fund. $43,500. 

 Available for original research in biological 

 studies. 



Hepsa Ely Silliman Fund. $85,000. Applicable 

 to a certain extent for scientific research. 



Sloane University Fund. $50,000. Applicable 

 to the payment of research assistants in the 

 Sloane Laboratory of Physics. 



Sloane Laboratory Fund. $75,000. Income 

 used for the promotion of research and study 

 in physics. 



Thomas C. Sloane Fund. $75,000. Available 

 for the study of physics in the Sloane Phys- 

 ical Laboratory. 

 Bussell H. Chittenden Fund. $4,000. Available 



for research in physiological chemistry. 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York. 

 Henry F. Osborn, President. 

 Jesup Fund. $1,000,000. To promote research, 

 exploration and publication: 



Morris K. Jesup Fund. $5,000,000. Bequest 

 for purposes similar to preceding fund. Not 

 yet available. 

 Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Nicholas 

 Murray Butler, President. 

 Adams Fund. $50,000. Available for the sup- 

 port of a research fellow in physical science 

 and for the publication of the results of his 

 investigations. 

 Dyckman Fund. $10,000. Available for re- 

 search in biology. 

 Peters Fund for Engineering Eesearch. $50,- 

 000. Available for research in the depart- 

 ment of civil engineering. 

 Throop College of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 

 James A. B. Scherer, President. $10,000 per 

 annum guaranteed for maintenance of a de- 

 partment of chemical research. $10,000 

 given for equipment of same. 

 Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. John G. 

 Hibben, President. Departmental Fund yield- 

 ing about $9,000 per annum. Available in 

 part for research. 

 Brown University, Providence, E. I. William H. 

 P. Faunce, President. Research Fellowships 

 have been founded as follows: 

 Grand Army of the Eepublic Fellowships, $10,- 



000. Applicable to advanced liberal study. 

 Arnold Biological Fellowships. $10,000. Ap- 

 plicable to biological research. 

 Morgan Edwards Fellowship. $10,000. Ap- 

 plicable to original research in any depart- 

 ment of knowledge. 

 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. J. T. 

 Kingsbury, President. Fund for research in 

 School of Mines. $7,500. Also some depart- 

 mental funds for research. 

 University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Robert 

 Falconer, President. Exhibition of 1857 

 Scholarship for Scientific Eesearch, awarded 

 biennially £150. 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 

 Palmer C. Rickefcts, Director. Louis E. Laflin 

 Research Fund. $10,000. Appropriations for 

 research also made from general funds. 

 University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. Edmund J. 

 James, President. Trustees assign amount of 

 general appropriation from legislature which 

 shall be devoted to research. Graduate School 

 appropriation about $60,000 per annum. 

 Clark University, Worcester, Mass. G. Stanley 

 Hall, President. Smith-Battles Fund for 

 Psychological Research. $5,000. 



