RESEARCH GRANTS FROM TRUST FUNDS 
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GRANTS FROM THE BACHE FUND 
No. 182, W. C. Kendall, $600. April 30, 1914. For illustrations in color and incidental 
expenses in connection with part II (Salmonidae) of Fishes of New England to be published 
by the Boston Society of Natural History. 
No. 183, C. G. Abbot, Smithsonian Institution, $250. June 29, 1914. To complete 
and test on Mt. Wilson in California an apparatus consisting of a concave cylindrical mir- 
ror of about 100 sq. ft. surface adapted to heat oil to circulate through a reservoir contain- 
ing ovens and water pipes, and thereby to utilize solar radiation for cooking and for heating 
water for domestic purposes. 
No. 184, P. W. Bridgman, Harvard University, $500. September 14, 1914. To con- 
tinue the work on high pressures, especially to investigate the phase changes brought about 
in various substances by very high pressure. 
No. 185, Robert W. Hegner, $160. December 26, 1914. To determine the visible 
changes that take place during the differentiation of the germ cells in the embryos of her- 
maphroditic animals, and to discover, if possible, the cause of these changes. 
No. 186, J. Voute, $800. February 9, 1915. For the determination of parallaxes of 
Southern Stars by transits, to be conducted at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 
wholly at the expense of Mr. Voute, except for these grants. (A grant of $1000 was pre- 
viousl}'- made for the same purpose.) 
No. 187, H. H. Lane, $500. April 14, 1915. For a comparative study of the embryos 
and young of various mammals, in order to determine, by physiological experimentation 
and morphological observations, the correlation between structure and function in the de- 
velopment of the special senses. 
GRANT FROM THE J. LAWRENCE SMITH FUND 
No. 4, C. C. Trowbridge, Columbia University, $250. In aid of his study of the lumi- 
nous trains of meteors. 
GRANTS FROM THE WOLCOTT GIBBS FUND 
No. 3, W. J. Hale, University of Michigan, $100. May 15, 1914. For assistance in a 
research on derivatives of 2.3-diacetyl pentadiene. 
No. 4, W. D. Harkins, Universityof Chicago, $200. November 25, 1914. For a special 
potentiometer and galvanometer to study cobaltamines and ternary systems of fused salts. 
No. 5, Mary E. Holmes, Mt. Holyoke College, $100 (second grant), March 18, 1915. 
For her research on the electrolytic determination of cadmium. 
GRANT FROM THE WATSON FUND 
No. 9, A. O. Leuschner, University of California, $960. April 21, 1914. For the 
preparation of tables of the Watson asteroids. 
GRANT FROM THE DRAPER FUND 
C, G. Abbot, Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, $500. April 
21, 1914. For the services of a computer for the reduction of observations of the solar- 
radiation and the absorption of the sun's atmosphere. 
The following additional grants were authorized by the Academy at the 
business session of April 19, 1915. 
GRANTS FROM THE WATSON FUND 
No. 10, John A. Miller, Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College, $500. For the 
measurement of plates already taken for the determination of stellar parallaxes. 
No. 11, John E. Mellish. To enable him to undertake observations at the Yerkes 
Observatory. 
