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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1419 



GRANTS FOR RESEARCH MADE BY 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE 



The Committee on Grants held its annual 

 meeting in New York on January 1, 1922, and 

 distributed four thousand dollars which was 

 assigned by the council of the association for 

 the current year. Three members of the com- 

 mittee, Messrs. Crew, Parker, and Stebbins, 

 having retired at the end of 1921, the present 

 organization of the committee is : Robert M. 

 Terkes, Chairman; F. R. Moulton, Secretary; 

 E. G. Conklin, C. Judson Herrick, Arthur B. 

 Lamb, G«orge T. Moore, E. L. Nichols, and 

 David White. 



Following is the list of grants for 1922: 



PHYSICS 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor 

 A. W. Smith, Ohio State University, in support 

 of his work on the latent heat of fusion and 

 on the specific heat of metals. 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor 

 L. R. IngersoU, University of Wisconsin, in 

 support of his work in magneto-optics. 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Professor 

 E. C. Blake, Ohio State University, for partial 

 payment toward the cost of an X-ray spectro- 

 meter. 



CHEMISTRY 



Two hundred and fifty dollars to Dr. A. W. 

 Rowe, Evans Memorial Hospital, Boston, for 

 the study of the basal metabolic rate in preg- 

 nancy. 



Two hundred dollars to Professor Harold 

 Hibbert, Yale University, for a study of the 

 oxidation potentials in related organic sub- 

 stances. 



One hundred dollars to Professor W. C. Rose, 

 School of Medicine, University of Texas, in 

 support of a study of blood changes in nephri- 

 tis. 



ASTRONOMY 



Two hundred dollars to the American Asso- 

 ciation of Variable Star Observers for a port- 

 able house to go with the telescope purchased 

 from a previous gi'ant. 



One hundred dollars to Miss Caroline E. 



Furness, Vassar College, additional to previous 

 grant for determining proper motions of stars. 

 One hundred dollars to Dr. Sebastian Al- 

 brecht, Dudley Observatory, additional to pre- 

 vious gi-ant for assistance in study of stellar 

 spectra. 



GEOLOGY 



Two hundred and fifty dollars to M. Ferdi- 

 nand Canu of Versailles, France, in further 

 support of his work on bryozoa. 



One hundred and fifty dollars to Dr. August 

 Foerste, High School, Dayton, Ohio, toward 

 travel and offiee expense in the preparation and 

 description of arctic fossil eephalopods. 



ZOOLOGY 



Two hundred and fifty dollars to Professor 

 Hermann J. Midler, University of Texas, to 

 carry out studies on mutations in files. 



Two hundred dollars to Professor S. 0. Mast, 

 Johns Hopkins University, to carry on work 

 on locomotion of amoeba. 



BOTANY 



One hundred and twenty five dollars to Dr. 

 Ralph C. Benedict, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 in further support of a study of the fern genus 

 Nephrolepis. 



Two hundred and fifty dollars in support of 

 Botanical Abstracts for the current year. 



One hundred and twenty five dollars to Pro- 

 fessor John T. Buehholz, University of Ar- 

 kansas, in support of work on pollen tubes. 



PSYCHOLOGY 



Four hundred dollars to Professor Raymond 

 Dodge, Wesleyan University, for the develop- 

 ment of an instrument for recording eye move- 

 ments. 



Three hundred dollars to Professor Franklin 

 0. Smith, Johns Hopkins University, for the 

 purchase of a monochromatic illuminator to be 

 used in research on color vision. 



PHYSIOLOGY 



Two hundred dollars to Professor Fred T. 

 Rogers, Baylor Medical College, for a study of 

 the marsupial brain. 



Two hundred dollars to Professor Frank P. 

 Knowlton, Syracuse University, in further 

 support of the study of the blood flow and 

 gaseous metabolism of the th-^Toid gland. 



