Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24
MANY APPROPRIATIONS
MADE BY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION.
Research Assistants Have Not Yet
Been Selected-Important
Meeting Today.

The executive committee Of the Carnegie
institution Of Washington held a meeting
at It's headquarters today. The committee
granted appropriations to encourage work
In certain branches of science and discussed
the question Of encouraging exceptional tai
ent by the appointment of a number Of re-
search assistants at fixed salaries
All the members of the committee except
Secretary Root were present. Another
meeting will be held here in February.
The grants made today were not made
public, in accordance with the fixed policy
to leave the publication Of such matters to
the grantees. -
The research assistants have not yet been
selected. The purpose Of this work is to
discover and develop, under competent
scrutiny and under favorable conditions,
such persons as have unusual ability.
Work Of an advanced and special charac-
ter is expected Of all who receive these. APP
pointments.
The positions will not be those commonly
known as fellowships or scholarships.
Neither is 1T intended to contribute to the
payment Of mechanical helpers or of assist
ants In the work of instruction, to provide
means for student to complete, his
courses of study or to assist In the prepara-
ton Of dissertations for academic degrees.
The annual emolument of these men will
vary according to circumstances. not ex-
ceeding 81 600 a year as rule.
Appointments will be for one year at
first, but may be continued and no limi-
tations are prescribed as to age, sex, ma
tionality, graduation or residence
The appointees, 1t Is proposed, are to
work under the supervision OF an investi-
cation known to the authorities of the
Carnegie institution to be engaged In an
in place easy of access to libraries and
apparatus.
Total Grants.
1t was decided to accept for publication
the mathematical and astronomical papers
Of George William Hill Of Nyack. N. Y.
formerly of this city. 1t was also made
known that the total grants so far made
by the institution aggregate 100000 which
is the sum allotted by the trustees for this
purpose during the year 1903.
The year book of the Carnegie Institution
which will be published shortly. reviews the
proceedings Of the institute since It's incep-
ton. 1t makes the following announce
ment of grants made heretofore.
The institution allotted $1,000 to the ma
rine biological laboratory, Woods Hole,
Mass. for general support; sl.00O for Dr.
]. NICK. Cattell, Columbia University, New
York, for preparing a list of scientific men
of the United States. and $1,000 to DIR. Hi
Philadelphia for continuation of their
studies of the Genealogical actions of snake
venom and allied poisons. g.
Other grants, according to the various
departments of science involved, follow:
Astronomy, SCI GOO; photography, $4,000;
botany. $11 700; chemistry. 81 500; econom-
ics $4,000; engineering. $4,000: explora-
ton. 5000: geology, $4,000; geophysics,
$500; history. $500; investigation of prof.
ect for southern and solar observatory,
So 900; investigation of project for ply
steal geophysical laboratories, IS 600;
investigation OF natural history. projects,
5000; marine biological research, $12, 500;
paleontology, 81 900; physics, $4,000; physi-
ology. 5000: psychology, Loco: publica-
tions s. 800; research assistants sos 1000;
student research work in Washington So
600; zoology. 5000; total. $1S5, 400.