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members have collected among themselves an 

 additional $1,000 for immediate improvements 

 and the installation of a memorial tablet. In 

 this manner, the entire fund raised by our com- 

 mittee will be invested in the form of a trust 

 and the income used perpetually for the main- 

 tenance of this laboratory which will thereby 

 become one of the best laboratories of electri- 

 cal measurements in the country. 



I wish also to note the general sentiments of 

 esteem and admiration expressed toward Dr. 

 Sheldon, the loyalty of several hundred former 

 students to his memory, and the enthusiasm 

 found within the splendid institution to which 

 with such conspicuous success he devoted so 

 many years of his life. 



T. C. Mabtin, 



Chairman 



THE RAMSAY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP 



The trustees of the Ramsay Memorial Fund 

 have requested the National Research Council 

 to nominate a fellow to devote his whole time 

 to research in chemistry in some English uni- 

 versity upon a stipend of 250 pounds sterling 

 per year, with an additional allowance of 50 

 pounds for apparatus. The National Research 

 Council has appointed a nominating com- 

 mittee consisting of F. G. Cottrell, chairman of 

 the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Tech- 

 nology, National Research Council, Washing- 

 ton, D. C; E. B. Mathews, chairman of tlie 

 Division of Geology and Geography, National 

 Research Council, Washington, D. C, and 

 professor of mineralogy and petrography, 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; 

 and W. E. Tisdale, secretary of the Division of 

 Physical Sciences, National Research Council, 

 Washington, D. C. 



This committee is willing to receive applica- 

 tions from any American chemists who have 

 taken a degree with distinction in chemistry 

 in a university or college within the United 

 States, and who are now connected with a uni- 

 versity or college, or have recently been gradu- 

 ated therefrom. 



The appointment will be for the academic 

 year 1922-1923, and the fellow is eligible for 

 reappointment for a second year. 



Applicants should furnish: 



1. Certificates or other satisfactory evidence of 

 birth, health, character, and academic or other 

 distinctions. 



2. A written application stating: 



(a) Education and employment to date, and 

 particularly the nature, extent, and place or 

 places of his academic studies and research. 



(6) Particulars of the work and place of work 

 proposed ; and 



(c) The names and addresses of not more than 

 three references well acquainted (one or other of 

 them) with the health, character, capacity and 

 career of the applicant, without, however, any 

 written testimonials from them or others. One of 

 the references should be a teacher under whom 

 the candidate has studied, or a high official of 

 his university, college, or other place of education. 



These fellowships are open in chemistry, 

 either pure or applied, and work may be car- 

 ried on at any university, college, or other place 

 of higher education, or an industrial laboratory 

 within the British Empire. Their object, in 

 this instance, has, in addition to the stimulation 

 of research, the special earnest desire on the 

 part of English scientists to cultivate the wider 

 acquaintance and good fellowship which is so 

 much to be desired between scientific men of 

 the world. 



The Ramsay Memorial Fund for research in 

 chemistry within the British Empire was 

 founded in 1920 to commemorate the services 

 to chemistry of Professor Sir William Ramsay,, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., with an initial endowment of 

 £14,000. Since that time several special en- 

 dowments have established additions to this 

 fund, and special fellowships with appropriate 

 regulations are granted under: The Glasgow 

 Special Fund; Royal Hellenic Government 

 Special Fund; Federal Government of Switzer- 

 land and of Swiss Subscribers Special Fund; 

 Royal Italian Government Fund; Fund of the 

 Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and 

 Industrial Research, Canada; Royal Swedish 

 Government Special Fund. 



Applications should be mailed before April 

 15 to 



W. E. Tisdale, 



Secretary 

 1701 Massachusetts Avenue, 

 "Washington, D. C. 



