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in December of each year while the work is in 

 progress, and a final report when the work is 

 completed and published. Each report should be 

 accompanied by a financial statement of expendi- 

 tures, with vouchers tor the larger items when 

 these can be supplied without aif&culty. 



9. The purposes for which grants are made and 

 the grounds for making them will be published. 



At least once each year announcement is 

 made in Sciexce inviting applications and sug- 

 gestions for grants. Althougli this procedure 

 naturally results in the receipt of a consider- 

 able number of requests for support of work 

 which is trivial or scientifically unsound, it is 

 also true that membere of the committee have 

 in this way learned of various places where 

 small expenditures would produce valuable 

 results, both by direct aid to struggling investi- 

 gators and by bringing to the attention of 

 authorities of institutions the importance of 

 some of the work which is being carried on hj 

 membere of their staffs. 



Each person who accepts a grant signs an 

 agreement to the following conditions : 



(1) The work as outlined will be begun in the 

 near future and efforts will be made to complete 

 it at as early a date as possible. 



(2) A report will be made to the secretary of 

 the committee on the completion and publication 

 of the work, and in December of each year until 

 the work is completed. The reports 'irill include 

 a financial statement with vouchers for the larger 

 items. 



(3) In the publication of the results the grant 

 from the research fund of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science will be 

 acknowledged. 



Shortly before December 1 of each year the 

 secretary of the committee sends out a reminder 

 to each recipient of a grant that a report is 

 due, and a list of these reports is kept in the 

 files of the committee. By a vote of the com- 

 mittee the account of each grant is kept open 

 until it is formally closed by action of the 

 chairman, secretary, and member of the com- 

 mittee in whose field the grant lies. Every 

 grant is thus followed up until the work is 

 completed and published. 



As the committee was organized just prior 

 to the entrance of the United States into the 

 war, there was considei-able delay at first, 



during 1917 and 1918, in getting the work of 

 the dififerent grants started. In fact, some of 

 the assignments were returned because the 

 work was postponed on account of the war, and 

 other investigations have not yet been brought 

 to conclusion for the same reason. 



In the following table is given a summary 

 of the grants that have been made during the 

 past five years together with a summary of the 

 present state of the accounts, and there is given 

 as an addendum to this report a detailed list 

 of the different grants which have been made : 



No. of Giants for Which 



Work is Work is No. of 



Com- Com- Papers 



Year Amount Number pleted pleted Puh- 



apportioned of Grants and Pub- fished 



lished 



1917 $ 2,350 14 9 6 10 



191S 2,900 9 6 5 12 



1919 4,000 16 9 5 12 



1920 4,500 19 9 4 3 



1921 5,000 24 8 2 2 



Totals $18,750 82 36 22 39 



Most scientific men will no doubt agree that 

 the only test as to whether or not a given 

 investigation is successful, is the actual publica- 

 tion of the results. The last column in the 

 foregoing table shows how many papere have 

 thus far been published as wholly or in part 

 due to grants from the association for the cor- 

 responding year. In the second addendum to 

 this report is given a bibliography of these 

 papers. This list is growing rapidly, and as 

 time goes on it will present a real measure of 

 the success of the work of the committee and 

 of the policy of the association. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Joel Stebbins, 

 Secretary, Committee on Grants 

 UNrvEESiTY or Illinois, 

 December, 22, 1921 



First Addendum 



List of Appropriations Made by the Committee 



ON Grants, 1917-1921 



1917 



1. Ralph C. Benedict, Brooklyn, New York. 



Botany. For the continuation of the 

 investigation on the Boston fern $100 



2. R. S. Woodworth, Columbia University. 



Psychology. For compiling anthro- 

 pometric data 109 



