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44 FACULTY MEMBERS GIVEN CLARK-MILTON AWARDS TOTALLING $40,900

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Awards totalling $40,900 to forty-four members of the University faculty and teaching staff for the furtherance of thirty-four research projects in the arts an sciences, under provisions of funds established by William F. Milton '58 and Joseph H. Clark '57, were announced yesterday. The grants are made to faculty members to defray the expenses of special investigations.

Recommendations for the awards are made by a committee consisting of Frank B. Jewett, of New York City, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, chairman; Simon Flexner, of New York City, former director of the Laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; and Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, president of Williams College.

The awards are to:

Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Wendell H. Furry, and Otto Oldenberg, to continue experiments on masses and abundances of isotopes, and in particular to separate in quantities isotopes or gas mixtures by thermal diffusion.

Henry K. Beecher, for a critical study of the effect of anaesthesia on the metabolism of brain tissue.

James R. Brewster and Walter F. Dearborn, to produce sound slides and to demonstrate their value as a supplementary aid to the teaching of reading in the primary grades.

James R. Brewster, for the preparation of an experimental text to be tested in courses in Audio-Visual Aids at Harvard and Boston University, such text to be provided with a sufficient number of charts, drawings and illustrations to avoid the usual misunderstandings.

C. Crano Brinton, to assist a study of social mobility and class distinctions in eighteenth century France.

Henry J. Cadbury, for a study of Quakerism in the West Indies in the seventeenth century.

Hubert L. Clark, for the preparation of a manuscript, in anticipation of publication, on "Echinoderm Fauna of Australia."

Elliott C. Cutler, for a study of tissue grafting by means of pulmonary embolism.

John P. Elder, to edit the Virgilian works of Remigius of Auxerre, and the so-called Vatican Mythographers.

Henry W. Eliot, for the preparation of a series of educational exhibits of the excavations of about twenty sites, analyzing the archaeology of Mesopotamia from 4500 to 500 B. C.

Knox H. Finley, for a study of the significance of the rich capillary beds of the supra-optic and peraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus.

Sheldon Glueck, for a follow-up study of criminals, the third in a series covering the careers of five hundred offenders following their commitment to a reformatory.

Norman S. B. Gras, to complete for publication a book entitled "Economic and Business History of the United States."

Louis C. Graton, and Ernest B. Dane Jr., to build a microscope especially adapted for the study of ores.

George M. A. Hanfmann, for photograph or photostats of each type used in the decoration of bucchere for studies in Eirusean art.

A. Baird Hastings, and Arthur K. Solomon, for biological research making use of artificial radioactivity.

Frederick L. Hisaw, for research on the physiology and chemistry of hormones concerned with reproduction.

Karl O. Lange, to construct the mechanical part of an air-pressure transmitting station and to maintain an automatic radio barograph station under the adverse weather conditions of Mt. Washington (6000 ft.) while recording in Boston.

Dumas Malone, for the preparation of a comprehensive biography of Thomas Jefferson.

Paul C. Mangelsdorf, to assist an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil to explore for wild and primitive corn.

Robert S. Morison, for a study of the influence of basal structures on the electrical responses of the cerebral cortex.

Ralph B. Perry, for secretarial assistance in the preparation of the volume, "The Philosophy of the Social Sciences."

Willard V. Quine, to prove the consistency of a system of mathematical logic, and to investigate philosophical presuppositions of science.

Gordon N. Ray, for photostats, secretarial assistance and travel expenses in connection with the preparation for publication in four volumes of "The Collected Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray."

George A. Reisner, to aid in the preparation for publication of inscriptional material in the Giza Necropolis.

Alfred S. Romer, for assistance in making wax plate reconstructions of the development of limb muscles of higher vertebrates preparatory to the publication of results.

Paul J. Sachs, to prepare for publication two volumes (one a text and the other plates) of the American and English Schools of "Drawings in the Fogg Museum."

Frederick A. Saunders, to complete a study of the mechanical properties of violins and to arrange for publication.

Robert S. Schwab, for Brain Wave Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, for the purchase and construction of a suitable cathode ray oscillograph apparatus with one built-in head amplifier and power amplifier projecting on a 4-inch screen and accompanied with a suitable camera with four different speeds of operation, using a standard 35 millimeter negative film.

Taylor Starck, for assistance in preparing an index of the "Old High German Glosses."

Eugene A. Stead, Jr., for an investigation on circulatory collapse and shock.

University Cyclotron Committee, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, chairman, Jabez C. Street, John J. Livingood, George B. Kistiakowsky, Kenneth V. Thimann, A. Baird Hastings, Joseph C. Aub, Shields Warren, and Roger W. Hickman, for the installation of a neutron-absorbing roof for the protection of cyclotron operators from the effects of neutron radiation.

John H. Welsh Jr., for a study of the metabolism of acetylcholine, undertaking to extend and relate studies on acetylcholine (undertaking to extend and relate studies on acetylcholine), in the invertebrates to the so-called "higher animals."

Jeffries Wyman Jr., to further develop work already in progress on the chemical reactions of hemoglobins and other respiratory pigments

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