Fifteen prominent Harvard graduates, now in the faculties of Harvard and other American universities, have been appointed to fellowships of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the coming year to engage in research study and creative work abroad.

The Foundation was established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of a son who died on April 26, 1922.

One of the most interesting of the studies to be assisted by the Foundation during the coming year is that of Dr. W. G. Luyten G. '24, assistant professor of Astronomy in the University. Dr. Luyten will go to Mazelspoort, South Africa, with the aim of taking a large number of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope in the Harvard Observatory there. His object will be to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1906, to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood of the sun.

Hood Granted Fellowship

Dr. T. L. Hood '08, instructor in English, is granted a fellowship, for the purpose of compiling and editing for publication a volume of the uncollected letters of Browning.

Dr. K. J. Conant '15, asistant professor of Architecture, has been reappointed to a fellowship, with his project the making of restoration drawings of the Abbey Church of Cluny in France.

With the object of making archaeological investigations in northern Mesopofamia, Dr. R. H. Pfeiffer '21, instructor in Semitic Languages, has been made a fellow.

Oregon Professor to go to England

D. G. Barnes A.M. '17, professor of History at the University of Oregon, will prepare in England a life of the statesman Henry Pelham.

Dr. R. P. Casey '18, assistant professor of the History and Philosophy of Religions at the University of Cincinnati, will prepare critical editions of the texts of St. Athanasius of Alexandria's "De Incarnatione" and of Titus of Bostra's "Contra Manichaeos" in several European libraries.

In the field of poetry, Countee Cullen A.M. '26, will go to Paris to complete a group of narrative poems and the libretto for an opera.

Dr. R. M. Smith A.M. '24, assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, will study for the coming year in Dublin with the object of investigating the historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland.

Dr. N. C. Little G. '19, A. M. '20, professor of Physics at Bowdoin College, will study at Tubingen, Germany, with his object the determination of thermomagnetic properties of gaseous molecules.

Dr. F. D. Graham A.M. '17, associate professor of Economics at Princeton University, will make a study of the industrial consequences of rapid depreciation of the German mark in the post-war periods.

Band Spectra Bears Investigation

Dr. F. W. Loomis '10, associate professor of Physics at New York University, will study the new quantum mechanics, especially in relation to problems in band spectra.

Dr. D. E. Minnich G. '18, associate professor of Zoology at the University of Minnesota, will study the chemical senses of insects at the University of Munich.

In the field of literature, Dr. J. W. Draper G. '20, professor of English at the University of Maine, will be assisted by the Foundation in continuing the studies of the "Graveyard School" of Eighteenth Century poetry in England and Scotland.

Dr. C. E. Kany G. '21, assistant professor of Spanish at the University of California, will go to the libraries of Madrid to study the unedited works of Ramon de la Crus and other material in the preparation of a book to be entitled "Lafe in Madrid during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century.

Dr. Carl Stephenson '12, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, will conduct a research in French and English archives in the preparation of a volume of studies in municipal history.