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RESEARCH GRANTS BY THE ACADEMY 
AWARD OF MEDALS 
The Academy assembled for dinner at the Wardman Park Inn on the eve- 
ning of April 29, when medals were presented as follows: 
The Agassiz Medal , for research in oceanography to Albert I, Prince of 
Monaco. 
The Henry Draper Medal, to Charles Fabry, of the University of Marseilles, 
in recognition of his researches in Physics and Astronomy, chiefly by means 
of interferometers. 
RESEARCH GRANTS FROM THE TRUST FUNDS OF THE ACADEMY 
During the twelve months preceding the Annual Meeting of the Academy 
the following grants for the promotion of research were made from the Trust 
Funds of the Academy. 
GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 
No. 210. Wayne J. Atwell, University of Buflfalo, Medical Department, $210. For 
investigation on the development of the human hypophysis cerebri. 
No. 211. George H. Shull, Princeton, N. J. $360. For continuation of studies in 
linkage and other genetical phenomena of Oenothera, and duplication of factors, multiple 
allelomorphism and other genetical phenomena in Shepherd's-purse. 
No. 212. Arthur G. Webster, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., $1500. For study 
of the air-wave accompanying a projectile. 
No. 213. Duncan S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University. $300. For a study of the 
behavior and character of the chromosomes at spermatogenesis, etc., in certain tropical liver- 
worts. 
GRANTS FROM THE WATSON FUND 
No. 18. John A. Miller, Sproul Observatory, $500. For the employment of assistance 
in measuring and reducing plates for the determination of parallaxes for the year beginning 
July 1, 1919. (Supplementary to Grant No. 17.) 
No. 19. Herbert C. Wilson, Goodsell Observatory, $300. For the employment of 
assistance in securing, measuring, and reducing photographic positions of minor planets for 
the year beginning July 1, 1919. (Supplementary to Grant No. 16.) 
No. 20. J. A. Parkhurst, $500. For the employment of assistance in measuring and 
reducing plates for photographic and photovisual magnitudes in the North Polar Sequence 
and in the parallax field on which the Yerkes Observatory is working; the grant to be avail- 
able during the year beginning June 1, 1919. 
GRANTS FROM THE MARSH FUND 
No. 3. Roy L. Moodie, University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago, $200. 
For " Studies in Paleopathology" for the purpose of contributing to the History of Medicine 
and attempting to determine what part, if any, disease has played in the extinction of races. 
