RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

172 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
dation's appropriations for Biological Abstracts
have amounted, in all, to $805,000.
American Institute of Physics
The sum of $6,000 was appropriated to the
American Institute of Physics for underwriting
its plans for financing scientific publication over
a period of three years beginning July 1, 1935.
By means of this appropriation the American
Institute of Physics is enabled to carry to completion
its plans for inducing the sponsors of
research to accept total or partial responsibility
for costs of publication as a legitimate part of
the costs of research.
Harvard University
Geophysics
Harvard University has received a grant of
$40,000 toward expenses of researches in geophysics
during the four-year period beginning
October 1, 1936. An appropriation of $50,000
was made for this same purpose in 1931 to provide
for expenditures during a five-year period
closing September 30, 1936. This former gift
was on a conditional basis and a Harvard committee
raised from private donors over $50,000
to match the original grant.
The program at Harvard ingeophysics concerns
chiefly the experimental determination of the
properties of natural rocks and minerals at con-
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