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THE Rockefeller Foundation in 1937 distributed a total of more than 9,500,000 dollars. Fifty-five per cent of the grants were for work in the United States, and among the largest appropriations and authorizations of the year were 420,000 dollars to the China Medical Board for the maintenance of the Peiping Union Medical College; 360,000 dollars to Harvard University for research in industrial hazards; 300,000 dollars to the Yale University School of Medicine for the Department of Psychiatry; 300,000 dollars to the California Institute of Technology for the development of organic chemistry; 275,000 dollars to the National Research Council for research in problems of sex and in biophysics; 250,000 dollars for the general research fund of the Yale University School of Medicine; 240,000 dollars to the Royal Institute of International Affairs for research in international problems; 156,000 dollars for teaching and research in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; 150,000 dollars to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research for basic economic research, and 100,000 dollars to the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation for research in connexion with the International Studies Conference. The annual report of the Foundation includes the president's review with the detailed reports of the secretary, the treasurer and the directors of the International Health Division, the Medical Sciences, the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences and the Humanities and the vice-president in charge of the programme in China.
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The Rockefeller Foundation. Nature 142, 1113–1114 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421113b0
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