October 2, 1903.] 



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Applications for assistance from this funil, 

 in order to receive consideration, 7nu^t he ac- 

 companied hy full information, especially in 

 regard to the following points: 



1. Precise amount required. Apijlicants 

 are reminded that one dollar ($1.00 or $1) 

 is approximately equivalent to four English 

 shillings, foiu- German marks, five French 

 francs, or five Italian lire. 



2. Exact nature of the investigation pro- 

 posed. 



3. Conditions under which the research is 

 to be prosecuted. 



4. Manner in which the appropriation asked 

 for is to be expended. 



All applications should reach, before Janu- 

 ary 1, 1904, the Secretary of the Board of 

 Trustees, Dr. C. S. ilinot. Harvard Jledieal 

 School, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 



It is intended to make new grants in Janu- 

 ary, 1904. 



The trustees are disinclined, for the present, 

 to make any grant to meet ordinary expenses 

 of living or to purchase instruments, such 

 as are found commonly in laboratories. De- 

 cided preference will be given to applications 

 for small amounts, and grants exceeding $300 

 will be made only under very exceptional cir- 

 cumstances. 

 (Signed) 



Henry P. Bowditch, President, 



Charles S. E.\ckesi.\nn, Treasurer, 



Edward C. Pickering. 



Theodore W. Richards, 



Ch.\rles-Sedgwick Misot, Secretary. 

 September, 190,3. 



Grants made prior to 1900 have already 

 been printed in Science. The following grants 

 have since been made. 



1900. 



86. $200, to Dr. H. H. Field, Zurich, Switzer- 

 land, to aid in the publication of a card catalogue 

 of biological literature. 



87. $500, to S. H. Scudder, Esq., Cambridge, 

 Mass., for the preparation of an index to North 

 American Ortlioptera. 



88. $300, to Professor P. Bachmetjaw, Sofia, 

 Bulgaria, for researches on the temperature of 

 insects. 



S!l. .$:i.j(), to Dr. E. .S. Faust, .Strassburg, Ger- 

 many, for an investigation of the poisonoiis secre- 

 tion of the skin of Amphibia. 



90. $230, to Professor Jacques Loeb, Chicago, 

 III., for experiments on artificial parthenogenesis. 



91. .$650, to the National Academy of Sciences, 

 Washington, D. C, towards the expenses of three 

 delegates to attend the conference of academies at 

 Wiesbaden in October, 1899, to consider the forma- 

 tion of an International Association of Academies. 



1901. 



92. $1.50, to Professor E. W. Scripture, New 

 Haven, Conn., for work in experimental phonetics. 



93. $300, to Professor W. Valentiner, Heidel- 

 berg, Germany, for observations on variable stars. 



94. $50, to A. M. Reese, Esq., Baltimore, Md., 

 for investigation of the embryology of the alli- 

 gator. 



1902. 



95. $125, to F. T. Lewis, M.D., Cambridge, 

 Mass.. for investigation of the development of the 

 vena cava inferior. 



9G. $150, to Professor Henry E. Crampton, 

 New York, for experiments on variation and selec- 

 tion in Lcpidoptera. 



97. $100, to Professor Frank W. Bancroft, 

 Berkeley, Cal., for experiments on the inheritance 

 of acquired characters. 



98. $250, to Professor John Weinzirl, Al- 

 buquerque, N. M., for investigation of the rela- 

 tions of climate to the cure of tuberculosis. 



99. $300, to Professor H. S. Grindley, Urbana, 

 111., for investigation of the proteids of flesh. 



100. $300, to Dr. Herbert H. Field, Zurich, 

 Switzerland, to aid the work of the Concilium 

 Bibliographicum. (\n additional grant of $300 

 was made .June, 1903.) 



101. $250, to Dr. T. A. .Jaggar, Cambridge, 

 Mass., for experiments in dynamical geology. 



102. $50, to Professor E. O. Jordan, Chicago, 

 111., for the study of the bionomics of Anopheles. 



103. $300, to Dr. E. Anding, Munich, Bavaria, 

 to assist the publication of his work, ' Ueber die 

 Bewegung dcr Sonne durch den Weltraimi.' 



104. $300, to Professor W. P. Bradley, Middle- 

 town, Conn., for investigations on matter in the 

 critical state. 



105. $300, Professor Hugo Kronecker, Bern, 

 Switzerland, for assistance in preparing his phys- 

 iological researches for publication. 



106. $300, to Professor W. Valentiner, Heidel- 

 berg, Germany, to continue the work of Grant 

 No. 93. 



