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24 RECEIVE MILTON RESEARCH AWARDS

Allard, Baxter, Bigelow, Brues, Cabot, Conant, Crozier, Davis, Kittredge Post Among Beneficiaries

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:

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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.

W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory, to develop and test apparatus for the photography of meteors.

Grinnell Jones '08, Associate Professor of Chemistry, to continue his investigation of the properties of solutions of electrolytes.

G. L. Kittredge '83, Gurney Professor of English Literature, to secure originals or copies of manuscripts bearing on the History of Witchcraft in England and America.

Harvard Law Faculty, to continue the scientific and statistical investigation of the operation of criminal justice in Boston.

A. G. McAdie, Rotch Professor of Meteorology and Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, to make a study of the electrification of clouds and fogs.

T. F. T. Plucknett '22, Assistant Professor of Legal History, for two years, to defray expenses of research incurred preliminary to the publication of the Year Books of the Reign of Richard II.

C. R. Post '04, Professor of Greek and Fine Arts, to complete the gathering of data for his book on the History of Spanish Painting.

J. H. Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity, to pay for assistance in the collation of the Greek manuscripts of the Epiatle of St. James.

F. A. Saunders, Professor of Physics, to purchase a Moll Recording Microphotometer for use in research of the structure of spectra.

A. M. Schlesinger, Professor of History, to complete his researches on American Social and Intellectual Life from the close of the Civil War to the year 1900, with Particular Reference to the Urbanization of Population.

Taylor Starck, Assistant Professor of German, to obtain Photostat copies of two manuscripts by Notker Labeo for the purpose of collation, and the preparation of a dictionary of the works of that author.

A. M. Tozzer '00, Professor of Anthropology, and Curator of Middle American Archaeology and Ethnology, to pay the salary of a graduate student working under the direction of Professor G. P. Baxter '01, who will chemically analyze metal objects from Yucatan.

W. H. Weston Jr. '15, Assistant Professor of Botany, to continue an intensive comparative study of a group of parasitic fungi which cause the several downy mildew diseases of important food crops.

R. H. Wetmore '24, Assistant Professor of Botany, to assemble the more extensive collection of the genera Aster and Solidago, to be studied later in the laboratory for the purposed of adding information to knowledge of cytology of hybrids and to the methods Nature adopts in producing new forms.

J. H. Woods '87, Professor of Philosophy, for Dr. Charles Hartshorne '21, Instructor in Philosophy, to enable the latter to continue his work on the preparation for publication of the manuscripts of Charles S. Peirce

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