Announced yesterday by the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences was a series of grants to members of the University faculty totalling $13,696.66.

The grants are intended to be used for intensive study in 1940-41 of the various problems presented by housing, social security and other subjects that are of interest to the Committee.

The grants and the subjects for study by the faculty members are as follows: John D. Black, "Land Utilization in Worcester County", and "Land Utilization in New England;" William L. Crum, "Financial Analysis of Selected Industrial Corporation Groups"; William Y. Elliott, "Interstate Trade Barriers"; James Ford, "Analysis of Low-Cost Housing"; Edwin Frickey, "A Survey of Time Series Analysis and its Relation to Economic Theory"; Elizabeth W. Gilboy, "Analysis of Demand or Consumption".

Seymour E. Harris, "Social Security" and "Economic Aspects of the Farm Credit Administration"; E. Pendleton Herring, "The Executive Legislative Balance"; Earl G. Latham, "The Origins of the Police Power"; Donald C. McKay, "A History of the Third French Republic, 1871-1914"; Edward S. Mason, "Problems in Monopoly and Competition"; and Carle C. Zimmerman, "The Evolution of the American Community".