Abstract
THE annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation for 1936 contains a review by the president, Mr. Baymond B. Fosdick, the reports of the secretary and the treasurer, and detailed reports of the work of the divisions. The International Health Division has continued investigations on yellow fever, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases, and has now included scarlet fever and influenza among its inquiries; it has also been largely instrumental in the production of an effective method of preventive vaccination against yellow fever. In medicine, attention has been mainly concentrated upon mental and nervous diseases, and the Foundation has supported studies in endocrinology, genetics and physiology, and the application of chemical and physical methods and mathematical analysis to biological problems. In the humanities, appropriations have been made, among others, for the development of radio programmes of cultural and educational value, and for education in China. Fellowships to the number of 504, spread over a wide field of knowledge, have been directly financed by the Foundation, and much aid has been given to exiled German scholars.
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The Rockefeller Foundation. Nature 141, 867 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141867c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141867c0