RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
man. There are few places in the United States
where broad research programs in mammalian
genetics are carried on. An important center is
the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, at
Bar Harbor, Maine, under the direction of Dr.
C. C. Little.
The sum of $35,000 has been appropriated to
this laboratory toward expenses of research in
mammalian genetics during the four-year period
beginning January 1, 1936. The general budget
of the laboratory was assisted during 1934 and
during 1935 at levels of £11,000 and ?12,500 respectively.
The present grant provides §12,500
for 1936, ?10,000 for 1937, £7,500 for 1938, and
35,000 for 1939. The program of the laboratory,
with its important genetic material consisting of
a stock of about 43,000 mice, some strains of
which have been inbred for more than 100 generations,
is, in brief, "long-term research on the
genetics of physiological factors that influence
continuing processes such as normal and abnormal
growth."
National Research Council
Research In Problems of Sex
The National Research Council has received
from the Foundation $75,000 toward support
during the year beginning July 1, 1936, of the
work of the Committee for Research in Problems
of Sex. A systematic research program of
sex problems has been developed under the
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