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each year. In 1920 the executive committee of 

 the council voted that the Committee on Grants 

 should thereafter elect its chairman and secre- 

 tary. 



Following is a list of pei-sons who have 

 served as members of the Committee on Grants, 

 with the inclusive years of their respective 

 terms : 



Edward C. Pickering 1917-1918 



B. C. Franklin 1917-1919 



N. L. Britton 1917-1919 



J. McKeen Cattell 1917-1919 



W. B. Cannon 1917-1920 



E. T. Chamberliu 1917-1920 



Henry Crew 1917-1921 



Louis I. Dublin 1919-1919 



G. N. Lewis 1919-1921 



G. H. Parker 1919-1921 



Joel Steuoins 1919-1921 



George T. Moore 1920-1923 



Robert M. Yerkes 1920-1923 



Arthur B. Lamb 1921-1922 



C. Judson Herrick 1921-1924 



David White 1921-1924 



The chairmen of the Committee on Grants 

 have been Edward C. Pickering (1917-1918), 

 Henry Crew (1919-1920), and Robert M. 

 Yerkes (1921-); and the secretaries, J. 

 McKeen Cattell (1917-1918), and Joel Steb- 

 bins (1919-1921). 



The committee has held its meetings annu- 

 ally, at first in Washington during the month 

 of April, but recently in December in connec- 

 tion with the meetings of the association. 

 Although the members are widely separated 

 geogi-aphically, it has been possible to get 

 enough of them together once a year to have 

 an intelligent discussion of the business of the 

 committee. Experience has shown that while a 

 good deal of preparation can be carried on by 

 correspondence, the final decisions and the ap- 

 portionment of money for grants can be made 

 satisfactorily only with the personal exchange 

 of views at a meeting. 



From the beginning it has been the policy of 

 the committee to apportion the annually avail- 

 able amount as a number of small grants to 

 individuals; in fact, with a total of about four 

 thousand dollars each year, to cover all the 

 sciences, there was no other choice than to 

 apportion a number of small sums. Although 



other methods of procedure have been sug- 

 gested, the council of the association has 

 formally approved the policy of the committee 

 in assigning miscellaneous grants to indi- 

 viduals, without undertaking to support spe- 

 cific lines of investigation which might stand as 

 projects of the committee alone. 



At the time of its organization the com- 

 mittee adopted a number of rules for its own 

 guidance and for the information of those to 

 whom grants are made. These rules, adopted 

 in April, 1917, kre as follows : 



1. Application for grants may be made to the 

 member of the committee representing the science 

 in which the work falls, or to the chairman or 

 secretary of the committee. The committee will 

 not depend upon applications, but will make 

 inquiry as to the way in which research funds can 

 be best expended to promote tlie advance of 

 science. In such inquiry, the committee hopes to 

 have the cooperation of scientific men and espe- 

 cially of the sectional committees of the associa- 

 tion. 



2. The committee will meet at the time of the 

 annual meeting of the association or on the call 

 of the chairman. Business may be transacted 

 and grants may be made by correspondence. In 

 such cases the rules of procedure formulated by 

 the late Professor Pickering and printed in the 

 issue of Science for May 23, 1913, will be fol- 

 lowed. 



3. Grants may be made to residents of any 

 country, but preference will be given to residents 

 of America. 



4. Grants of sums of $500 or less are favored, 

 but larger appropriations may be made. In some 

 cases appropriations may be guaranteed for sev- 

 eral years in advance. 



5. Grants as a rule will be made for work 

 which could not be done or would be very difficult 

 to do \\'ithout the grant. A grant will not ordi- 

 narily be made to defray living expenses. 



6. The committee will not undertake to super- 

 vise in any way the work done by those who 

 receive the grants. Unless otherwise provided, 

 any apparatus or materials purchased mil be the 

 property of the individual receiving the grant. 



7. No restriction is made as to publication, but 

 the recipient of the grant should in the publica- 

 tion of his work acknowledge the aid given by 

 the fund. 



8. The recipient of the grant is expected to 

 make to the secretary of the committee a report 



