Frederick A. Saunders, to complete a study of the mechanical properties of violins and to arrange for publication.

Robert S. Schwab, for Brain Wave Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, for the purchase and construction of a suitable cathode ray oscillograph apparatus with one built-in head amplifier and power amplifier projecting on a 4-inch screen and accompanied with a suitable camera with four different speeds of operation, using a standard 35 millimeter negative film.

Taylor Starck, for assistance in preparing an index of the "Old High German Glosses."

Eugene A. Stead, Jr., for an investigation on circulatory collapse and shock.

University Cyclotron Committee, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, chairman, Jabez C. Street, John J. Livingood, George B. Kistiakowsky, Kenneth V. Thimann, A. Baird Hastings, Joseph C. Aub, Shields Warren, and Roger W. Hickman, for the installation of a neutron-absorbing roof for the protection of cyclotron operators from the effects of neutron radiation.

John H. Welsh Jr., for a study of the metabolism of acetylcholine, undertaking to extend and relate studies on acetylcholine (undertaking to extend and relate studies on acetylcholine), in the invertebrates to the so-called "higher animals."

Jeffries Wyman Jr., to further develop work already in progress on the chemical reactions of hemoglobins and other respiratory pigments