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THE fund established by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, of Stamford, Connecticut, “for the advancement and prosecution of scientific research in its broadest sense,” now amounts to 26,000 dollars. As accumulated income will be available in January next, the trustees desire to receive applications for appropriations in aid of scientific work. Preference will be given to those investigations which cannot otherwise be provided for, which have for their object the advancement of human knowledge or the benefit of mankind in general, rather than to researches directed to the solution of questions of merely local importance. Further particulars can be obtained from the secretary of the Board of Trustees, Dr. C. S. Minot, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. It is intended to make new grants in January, 1904. Decided preference will be given to applications for small amounts, and grants exceeding 300 dollars will be made only in very exceptional circumstances. The following list of grants for 1902 has not previously been recorded:—125 dollars to Dr. F. T. Lewis, Cambridge,. Mass., for investigation of the development of the vena cava inferior; 150 dollars to Prof. Henry E. Crampton, New York, for experiments on variation and selection in Lepidoptera; 100 dollars to Prof. Frank W. Bancroft, Berkeley, Cal., for experiments"on the inheritance of acquired characters; 250 dollars to Prof. John Weinzirl, Albuquerque, N.M., for investigation of the relations of climate to the cure of tuberculosis; 300 dollars to Prof. H. S. Grindley, Urbana, Ill., for the investigation of the proteids of flesh; 300 dollars to Dr. Herbert H. Field, Zürich, Switzerland, to aid the work of the Concilium Bibliographicum (an additional grant of 300 dollars was made June, 1903); 250 dollars to Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Cambridge, Mass., for experiments in dynamical geology; 50 dollars to Prof. E. O. Jordan, Chicago, Ill., for the study of the bionomics of Anopheles; 300 dollars to Dr. E. Anding, Munich, Bavaria, to assist the publication of his work, “Ueber die Bewegung der Sonne durch den Weltraum“; 300 dollars to Prof. W. P. Bradley, Middletown, Conn., for investigations on matter in the critical state; 300 dollars to Prof. Hugo Kronecker, Bern, Switzerland, for assistance in preparing his physiological researches for publication; 300 dollars to Prof. W. Valentiner, Heidelberg, Germany, for observations on variable stars.