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with  alcohol ;  and  the  extracted  poison  was  purified  by  successive 
treatments  with  petroleum,  ether,  alcohol,  sodium  chloride  brine,  and 
distilled  water.  The  poison  apparently  is  an  unsaturated  compound 
of  the  aromatic  series,  containing  carbon,  hydrogen,  and  oxygen;  it 
reacts  like  a  phenol,  and  may  contain  two  hydroxyl  groups  in  the 
ortho  position.  On  account  of  its  phenolic  nature,  it  has  been  named 
lobinol.  (Journ,  Amer.  Chem.  Soc,  1921,  xliii,  159-164;  through 
Jonrn.  Frank.  Inst.,  Feb.,  192 1.) 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTES 
Funds  for  Scientific  Research. — The  Research  Information 
Service  of  the  National  Research  Council  has  recently  compiled  in- 
formation about  funds  for  scientific  research.  From  this  compila^ 
tion  it  appears  that  there  are  hundreds  of  special  funds,  trusts,  or 
foundations  for  the  encouragement  or  support  of  a  research,  in  the 
mathematical,  physical  and  biological  sciences,  and  their  applications 
in  engineering,  medicine,  agriculture  and  other  useful  arts.  The  in- 
come from  these  funds,  which  amounts  annually  to  at  least  fifty  mil- 
lion dollars,  is  used  principally  for  prizes,  medals,  research  scholar- 
ships and  fellowships,  grants  and  sustains  appropriations  or  endow- 
ments. 
So  numerous  have  been  the  requests  to  the  Research  Council  for 
information  about  sources  of  research  funds,  availability  of  sup- 
port for  specific  projects  and  mode  of  administration  of  particular 
trusts  or  foundations,  that  the  Research  Information  Service  has  cre- 
ated a  special  file,  which  it  is  proposed  to  keep  up  to  date  in  order  to 
answer  the  questions  of  those  interested  in  such  funds.  Further- 
more, in  order  to  give  wider  publicity  to  the  immediately  available 
information  about  research  funds,  the  Council  has  issued  a  bulletin 
under  the  title  "Funds  Available  in  1920  in  the  United  States  of 
America  for  the  Encouragement  of  Scientific  Research." 
Inquiries  concerning  the  bulletin  or  for  information  about  re- 
search funds  should  be  addressed,  National  Research  Council,  In- 
formation Service,  1701  Massachusetts  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 
