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THE Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland has recently published its report for 1935-36. Grants to universities and extra-mural institutions amounted to £51,460, expenditure on assistance in payment of class-fees to £53,971, grants under the Trust's scheme for endowment of research to £17,880. The progress of recovery from economic and industrial depression in Scotland is reflected in the exceptional number of resignations of fellows and scholars due to their appointment to paid positions. Of thirty-two fellows and scholars in chemistry, organic and physical, fifteen resigned, some almost at the commencement of their appointment periods. Another indication of prosperity is the sharp rise in the amount of voluntary repayments by former recipients, of aid from the Trust. These repayments amounted to £2,362, the largest amount so received by the Trust since 1928-29, and only exceeded in that year and 1926-27. The aggregate amount of such repayments since the inauguration of the scheme in 1901 is £38,000.
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Carnegie Trust for the Scottish Universities. Nature 139, 623 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139623c0
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