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SCIENCE. 



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Herbert Putnam, Washington, D. C. For pre- 

 paring and publisliing a handbook of learned so- 

 cieties. $5,000. 



BOTANY. 



Desert Botanical Laboratory. Frederick V. 

 Coville, Washington, D. C, and D. T. MacDougal, 

 New York, N. Y., advisory committee. $5,000. 



Burton E. Livingston, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. For investigations of the relations 

 of desert plants to soil moisture and to evapora- 

 tion. $400. 



E. W. Olive, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

 For researches on the cytology of certain lower 

 plants. $1,000. 



V. M. Spalding, Tucson, Arizona. For investi- 

 gation of absorption and transpiration of water 

 by desert shrubs. $600. 



chemistry. . 



John J. Abel, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. For study of the chemical composition 

 of tlie secretion of the supra-renal gland. $500. 



Wilder D. Bancroft, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca. N. Y. For a systematic chemical study 

 of alloys. $500. 



Chas. Baskerville, College of the City of New 

 York, New Y'^ork City. For investigations of the 

 rare earths. $1,000. 



Gregory T. Baxter, Cambridge, Mass. For re- 

 search upon the atomic weight of manganese. 

 $500. 



Moses GojtBERG and Lee H. Cone, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. For study of triphenylmethyl and anal- 

 ogous compounds. $500. 



H. C. Jones, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. For investigations in physical chem- 

 istry. $1,000. 



W. L. Miller, University of Toronto, Toronto, 

 Canada. For the study of electric migrations in 

 solutions of weak acids. $500. 



H. N. Morse, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. For development of a method for the 

 measurement of osmotic pressure. $1,500. 



A. A. Noyes, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. For researches upon: (1) Electrical con- 

 ductivity of salts in aqueous solution at high 

 temperatures; (2) Ionization of weak acids and 

 bases and hydrolysis of their salts in aqueous 

 solution at high temperatures; (3) Transference 

 determinations in aqueous solutions of acids. 

 $1,000. 



Thomas B. Osborn, New Haven, Conn. For re- 

 search on chemical substances yielded by proteids 

 of the wheat kernel when decomposed by acids. 

 $1,500. 



Theodore W. Richards, Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Mass. For investigation of the value 

 of atomic weights, etc. $2,500. 



Henry S. Washington, Locust, N. J. For the 

 chemical investigation of igneous rocks. $1,200. 



ENGINEERING. 



W. F. DuRAND, Stanford University, California. 

 For experiments on ship resistance and propulsion. 

 $4,120. 



W. F. M. Goss, Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Ind. For a research to determine the value of 

 high steam pressures in locomotive service. $5,000. 



EXPERIMENTAL PHONETICS. 



E. W. Scripture, Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn. For researches in experimental phonetics. 

 $2,700. 



geology. 



T. C. Chamberlin, University of Chicago, Chi- 

 cago, 111. For study of fundamental principles of 

 geology. $6,000. 



Bailey Willis, U. S. Geological Sur^-ey, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. For geological exploration in east- 

 ern China. $12,000. 



geophysics. 



Frank D. Adams, McGill University, Montreal, 

 Canada. For investigation on flow of rocks. 

 $1,500. 



G. K. Gilbert, Washington, D. C. For prepar- 

 ing plans for investigating subterranean tempera- 

 tures. $1,000. 



HISTORY. 



Annie Heloise Abel, New Haven, Conn. For 

 investigating the early Indian policy of the United 

 States. $150. 



William Wirt Howe, New Orleans, La. For 

 preliminary inquiry into the subject of an investi- 

 gation on legal history and comparative juris- 

 prudence. $1,000. 



mathematics. 



Derrick N. Lehmer, Berkeley, Cal. For pay 

 of assistants to make the entries in a table of 

 smallest divisors. $500. 



E. J. WiLCZYNSKi, Berkeley, Cal. For investi- 

 gation of ruled surfaces, etc. $1,800. 



paleontology. 



Oliver P. Hay, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, N. Y. For monographing the 

 fossil chelonia of North America. $3,000. 



G. R. WiELAND, Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn. For continuation of researches on li^■ing 

 and fossil cycads, and illustration of memoir on 

 the structure of the latter. $2,300. 



