RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE NATURAL SCIENCES 169
1936 and 1937. This support provides traveling
and living expenses for the participants, clerical
and other administrative expenses, and
costs
of publication. The first of these summer symposia
was organized in 1933. A group of recognized
authorities is invited to spend from two
weeks to a month in residence at the laboratory.
Other scientists attend and take part in the discussions.
During the month of the symposium
two sessions are held daily; at each of these a
single paper is presented, with ample time, often
two or three hours, for general discussion by the
entire group. The
discussion is recorded stenographically,
and a corrected digest is published
along with the formal papers. The first symposium
discussed "The Potential Difference at
Interfaces and its Bearing upon Biological
Phenomena"; the second was devoted to general
problems of growth; the third was concerned
with problems of photochemistry and of photosynthesis;
and the fourth and fifth in 1936 and
1937 will probably deal with excitation phenomena
and with enzymes, hormones, and vitamins,
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Former Program
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
On February 13, 1930, The Rockefeller Foundation
appropriated 21,000,000 to the Woods
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