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going in and out of his office apparently on 

 the usual errands connected with registration, 

 etc. 



The University of Moscow expected to open 

 in September but did not, and had not yet 

 opened when I left Moscow early in October. 

 I learned that the salaries and food ration 

 of the Moscow men had been notably in- 

 creased but did not learn details as I did at 

 Kazan. 



The salaries and " paiok " of the profes- 

 sors in the University of Kazan had been 

 so meagre that not a man was able to live 

 on them, and every professor was meeting 

 his family's need for food by doing some- 

 thing besides regular university work. The 

 means for keeping himself and family alive 

 were various, but in almost all cases they 

 included the successive sacrificing of per- 

 sonal and household belongings. One pro- 

 fessor of biology told me that he made shoes, 

 and that his wife baked little cakes and sold 

 them in the city market. He had sold all 

 of his own and his wife's simple jewels and 

 trinkets and one of his two microscopes. 

 Yet this man, who has not been able to see 

 any books or papers published later than 1914, 

 has struggled along with his special researches 

 and has actually achieved two pieces of ex- 

 perimental work on vitamines which seem 

 to me, with my little knowledge of the sub- 

 ject, to contribute certain definite new knowl- 

 edge concerning these interesting substances. 



But, beginning in August, there had been 

 a material increase in salary and in food 

 ration. The monthly food ration had been 

 put, in August, on the following basis: dark 

 (mostly rye) flour, 30 lb. ; dried peas, 5 lb. ; 

 cereal grits, 15 lb. ; sweets (not cane or beet 

 sugar), 2 1/2 lbs. ; tobacco, 3/4 lb.; butter, 

 6 lbs.; meat, 15 lbs.; fish, 5 lbs.; tea 1/4 lb.; 

 white fiour, 5 lbs. The items from dark flour 

 to tobacco, inclusive, had been received; the 

 rest of them, promised but not received. 

 About 250 professors and instructors receive 

 this ration. The university buildings are 

 so cold that some of the men do all their 

 work, except lecturing, in their homes. About 

 6,000 students had registered, but only about 



10 per cent, of them were in actual attend- 

 ance. The largest departments in point of 

 student enrollment were medicine and science. 

 My friend, the professor of biology, had 

 never before ridden in an automobile until 

 he rode with me in our relief car. About 20 

 men of the Kazan faculty have died in the 

 last two years. 



Vernon Kellogg 

 National Ekseaech Council 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



GRANTS FOR RESEARCH OF THE AMERICAN 



ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE 



The Committee on Grants of the associa- 

 tion will hold its annual meeting during 

 Christmas week, 1921, and will probably have 

 at its disposal about four thousand dollars 

 for grants in support of investigation in the 

 different sciences. The committee especially 

 invites suggestions from scientific men as to 

 suitable places for small grants. Suggestions 

 or applications should be sent before Decem- 

 ber 15 to the member of the committee in 

 whose field the work lies, or to the secretary. 

 The present personnel of the committee is 

 Eobert M. Yerkes, chairman; Henry Crew, 

 C. J. Herrick, A. B. Lamb, George T. Moore, 

 G. H. Parker, Joel Stebbins, David White. 

 Joel Stebbins, 



Secretary of the Committee on Grants 

 Urbana, Illinois 



map of the north pacific ocean 

 A NEW base map of the Forth Pacific Ocean 

 on the transverse polyconic projection has 

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 lished in clear form and convenient size 

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 This map is designed primarily as a base 

 on which statistical data of various special 

 kinds may be shown. In consequence of this 

 purpose only features of major importance 

 are shown on it and these features are empha- 

 sized to an extent not possible on a map which 



