RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

308 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
sity of London, originated through the need of
the International Institute of African Languages
and Cultures for men trained in the use of tribal
dialects that had not been adequately studied.
Help given the latter organization for its economic
and ethnological studies in Africa under
a grant of The Rockefeller Foundation could be
only partially effective until the institute could
carry through the necessary linguistic research to
provide language training. Therefore the School
of Oriental Studies was called upon to assist.
In 1932 the Foundation first supported this
work by granting £36,000 (£9,000) to be used in
equal amounts during the three years ending
June 30, 1935. In February 1935 a further grant
of 215,000, or enough to purchase a maximum of
£3,000, was made, and later extended to provide
for the continuance of the work during the period
ending September 30, 1936.
Professor Lloyd James, of the School of Oriental
Studies, has now made his division of
African linguistics an effective center for teaching
and research. For the first time in the
history of the school, research in African languages
has been carried on systematically both
at home and in the field. The work of preparing
material for publication is going forward
steadily. Gramophone records of the Hausa and
Efik languages have been made and published
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