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ties of great trade development that lie in the 

 great natural resources of the country. 



The committee appointed by the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences to allocate the grants 

 from the Bonaparte Fund for the year 1913 

 have, as we learn from Nature, made the fol- 

 lowing proposals: Out of sixty-three appli- 

 cations the committee recommends twenty-one 

 grants. 



3,000 francs to H. Caillol, for the publica- 

 tion of his catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 Provence. 



2,000 francs to A. Colson, for apparatus re- 

 quired for his work in physical chemistry. 



2,000 francs to E. Coquide, to assist him in 

 his study of the means of utilizing peaty soil. 



2,000 francs to C. Schlegel, for the continu- 

 ation of his researches in the laboratory of M. 



6,000 francs, in equal parts, between MM. 

 Pitard and Pallary, for assistance in the con- 

 tinuation of their scientific work in Morocco. 



2,000 francs to Jules Welsch, for his geo- 

 logical work on the coasts of western France 

 and Great Britain. 



2,000 francs to Louis Roule, for continuing 

 and extending his researches on the morpho- 

 logy and biology of the salmon in France. 



2,000 francs to Jean Pougnet, for the con- 

 tinuation of his researches on the chemical 

 and biological action of ultra-violet light. 



2,000 francs to C. Dauzere for his work on 

 cellular vortices. 



2.000 francs to Med. Gard, for the publica- 

 tion of a work and atlas on material left by 

 the late M. Bomet. 



4,000 francs to Aug. Chevalier, to meet the 

 expense necessitated by the classification of the 

 botanical ■ material arising from his expedi- 

 tions in Africa. 



2,000 francs to Paul Becquerel, for the con- 

 tinuation of his physiological researches relat- 

 ing to the influence of radio-active substances 

 upon the nutrition, reproduction and varia- 

 tion of some species of plants. 



4,000 francs to Le Morvan, for assistance in 

 publishing the photographic atlas of the moon. 



2,000 francs to Jacques Pellegrin, to assist 



him to pursue his researches and publish works 

 on African fishes. 



3,000 francs to E. Rengade, for a systematic 

 research on the presence and distribution of 

 the rare alkali metals in mineral waters. 



3,000 francs to Charles AUuaud, for the pub- 

 lication of work on the Alpine fauna and flora 

 of the high mountainous regions of eastern 

 Africa. 



2,000 francs to Charles Lormand, for the 

 purchase of a sufficient quantity of radium 

 bromide to carry out methodical researches on 

 the action of radio-activity on the develop- 

 ment of plants. 



2,000 francs to Alphonse Labbe, for re- 

 searches on the modifications undergone by 

 animals on changing from salt to fresh water 

 or the reverse. 



3,000 francs to G. de Gironcourt, for the 

 publication of the scientific results of his 

 expeditions in Morocco and western Africa. 



3,000 francs to A. F. Legendre, for the pub- 

 lication of maps and documents of his expedi- 

 tions in China. 



2,000 francs to H. Abraham, for the deter- 

 mination of the velocity of propagation of 

 Hertzian waves between Paris and Toulon. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The General Education Board has given 

 $750,000 toward an endowment of $1,500,000 

 for the medical department of Washington 

 University, St. Louis, to create full time 

 teaching and research departments in medi- 

 cine, surgery, and pediatrics. The conditions 

 of the gift provide that all teachers in these 

 departments, while free to render any medical 

 or surgical service, must not derive therefrom 

 any personal gain. Their entire time must be 

 devoted to hospital work, to teaching and re- 

 search in their several specialties, as it is be- 

 lieved that medical education in the past has 

 suffered from the fact that the teachers have 

 had to rely on private work for the major por- 

 tion of their income. The General Education 

 Board has also made conditional grants of 

 $100,000 each to Knox College, Galesburg, HI., 

 and to Washburn College, Topeka, Kan. 



