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.