RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

158 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
Clark University for research in neurophysiology
over a three-year period beginning with the
academic year 1935-36. In the Department of
Biology Clark University has built up a small but
active group in the field of neurophysiology.
The present grant will provide for the purchase
of equipment and also for part of the salary of a
research assistant to Professor Hudson Hoagland,
the head of the department.
University of California
Plant Genetics
For the past twenty years Professor E. B.
Babcock of the University of California has been
working on the general problem of the evolution
of the higher plants as exemplified in the genus
Crepis, which has about 225 species. Nearly half
of these species have been collected in the living
condition and subjected to intensive investigation.
There have been brought to bear the sciences
of genetics, cytology, and comparative
anatomy, in connection with the problems of
hybridization and geographical distribution.
More than fifty scientific papers have been
published on the results of the Crepis investigations,
dealing mostly with the cytology and
genetics of species and
interspecific hybrids.
Focusing various lines of investigation on a single
problem of this kind has forwarded our knowledge
of the basic facts of evolution. Professor
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