Twenty-four members of the Harvard Faculties and Scientific staff will receive awards from the Milton Fund for Research, for the year 1927-28, it was announced last night.

The Milton Fund is derived from the estate of William F. Milton '58, who made a bequest to the University, effective on the death of Mrs. Milton.

Fund Income $50,000

The Fund, which came to Harvard in 1924, has an income of approximately $50,000. The awards for the year 1927-28 amount to about $49,000, and for the year 1928-29 to about $75,000. No award is made for a longer period than two years.

The grants from the Fund for next year have been awarded to the following men for the object specified:

Louis Allard '06, Professor of French, to complete the assembly of documents for his book on "The Comedy of Manners in France."

G. P. Baxter '96, Professor of Chemistry, for two years, to carry on the experimental determinations of the compressibility's and temperature coefficients of gases at low pressure.

H. B. Bigelow '01, Lecturer and Research Curator in Zoology, to study the dynamic cause of the Gulf Stream current off the North Atlantic-Coast of the United States.

C. T. Brues, Associate Professor of Economic Entomology, to obtain collections for a continuation of his work on the adaptations of aquatic animal life to high temperatures.

R. C. Cabot '89, Professor of Social Ethics, to complete the work begun under previous grants on the effects of a prison sentence on the after lives of 500 men who have been released from the Concord, Massachusetts, Reformatory.

J. B. Conant '13, Associate Professor of Chemistry, to investigate the nature of the linkage between the protein and the pigment in hemoglobin and the nature of the changes involved in the oxidation and reduction of the pigment.

W. J. Crozier '18, Associate Professor of General Physiology, to pay the salary of an assistant and to defray expenses incurred in an investigation on the nature of central nervous processes.

Davis gets Award

H. N. Davis '06, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and G. P. Baxter '96, to determine the temperature of the ice-point on the absolute scale through measurement of the densities of argon and oxygen at various temperatures and pressures.

J. A. Dawson, Instructor in Zoology, to investigate the nature and function of the so-called excito-motor apparatus in unicellular animals.