RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE NATURAL SCIENCES
Two appropriations were made during the year
to continue the financing of such natural science
fellowships, one of $100,000 to be utilized for the
work of Europeans in the specific field of experimental
biology during the year 1936, and one of
$7,500 for completing the work of Chinese fellows
working during 1935 in foreign countries.
Grants in aid were made during 1935 to individual
scientists engaged in research along lines
of Foundation interests. While such grants are
always relatively small in amount, it frequently
happens that the results accomplished through
the opportunities they afford are of far-reaching
significance. For grants in aid in the specific field
of experimental biology the sum of $140,000 was
appropriated for the year 1936.
The following are typical of the larger grants
in aid made during 1935: $7,500 to the Department
of Medical Chemistry of the University of
Edinburgh for the investigations of Professor G.
Barger on the chemical constitution of vitamin
B-l; $7,500 to the University of Utrecht for the
cooperative research of Professor L. S. Ornstein
of that institution and Professor A. J. Klifyver
of the Delft Laboratory of Microbiology; $5,600
to the University of Cambridge for studies under
Professor David Keilin in cellular metabolism
and the mechanism of intercellular respiration;
$5,000 to the University of Illinois forthe separa-
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