Awards totalling, $40,849 to forty members of the University faculty and teaching staff for the furtherance of thirty-six research projects in the arts and sciences, under provisions of funds established here by William F. Milton '58 and Joseph H. Clark '57, were announced today. 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 James Phinney Baxter, III, president of Williams College.

The awards are to:

Thomas Barbour, to continue explorations of the Miocene in Gilchrist County, Florida.

Paul D. Bartlett, for a study of the effect of resonance on the properties of trity compounds.

Charles F. Brooks, to prepare for publication a third volume entitled "Climate and Weather of Puerto Rice and the Virgin Islands," and to publish a monograph entitled "Filter Measurements of Solar Radiation at Blue Hill Observatory."

Eberhard F. F. Bruck, to prepare for publication a book entitled "After Life and the Will in Greek, Roman and Mediaeval Law."

J. N. Douglas Bush, to prepare for publication a volume on "History of English Literature from 1600 to 1660."

Henry J. Cadbury, to prepare an early history of Quakerism in Jamaica.

William J. Clench, for a study of large shell collections in anticipation of supplementing the present published data on mollusks.

Lemnel R. Cleveland, for a study of the structure and life-cycle of chromosomes.

I. Bernard Cohen and George Sarton, to investigate the practical value of fundamental research in science.

Elliott C. Cutler, to study the mechanism of ventricular fibrillation following coronary occlusion in normal and sclerotic arteries.

Knox H. Finley, for electro-physiological studies on the hypothalamus and cerebrum.

Sheldon Glueck, to assist an investigation of the causes and treatment of juvenile delinquency.