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THE following Leverhulmo research fellowships have recently been awarded, among others, for research in the subjects indicated: Dr. E. Ashley Cooper, lecturer in chemistry, University of Birmingham (activity of enzymes of bacteria); Prof. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, assistant professor of sociology, University of Cairo, Egypt (detailed ethnological and sociological study of the pagan Galla of Western Abyssinia); Dr. R. MacLagan Gorrie, Indian Forest Service (correlation of erosion damage and grazing in forest lands); Miss M, M. Green, late Government Education Department, Nigeria (anthropological and linguistic research among the Ibo tribe of Southern Nigeria—joint research with Mrs. S. H. Leith-Ross); D. LI, Hammick, fellow and tutor, Oriel College, Oxford (interaction of nitro-compounds with aromatic bases and hydrocarbons); Dr. H. Stafford Hatfield (behaviour of crystalline substances in electric and magnetic fields); Dr. L. S. B. Leakey, part-time lecturer in the Kikuyu language, School of Oriental Studies, London (prehistory of Bast Africa); Mrs. S. H. Leith-Ross, late Secretary, Board of Education, Nigeria (home and social life of the women of the Ibo tribo of Southern Nigeria—joint research with Miss M. M. Green); N. E. Odell, geologist to the Louise A. Boyd Expedition to N.E. Greenland, 1933 (structure and meta-morphism of the Franz Josef Ford region of North-East Greenland); Dr. W. H. Taylor, assistant lecturer in physics, University of Manchester (application of X-ray analysis to the investigation of the structures of organic compounds). Grants in aid of researches have been made to the following, among others: Prof. K. A. C. Creswcll, assistant professor of Muslim art and archæology, Egyptian University, Cairo, Egypt (researches on early Muslim art and architecture); Capt. C. R. P. Diver, Senior Clerk, House of Commons (South Haven Peninsula Survey, Studland Heath, Dorset. (1) Physiography and history. (2) Distribution of populations and ecology of several animal orders); J. Reid Moir (prehistoric archaeology); Mrs. C. F. Tipper, University of Cambridge (plastic deformation of metals).
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Leverhulme Research Fellowships. Nature 133, 980 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133980a0
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