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ACCORDING to the annual report which has recently been published, the Rockefeller Foundation expended 12,679,775 dollars during the year 1934. In public health, field researches were undertaken on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis and several other diseases, and the organisation and maintenance of essential State and national health services in various parts of the world were promoted. In the medical sciences, many university departments and others received aid for psychiatry, and the Lister Institute funds for the purchase of an ultra-centrifuge. In the natural sciences, grants were made for promoting experimental biology and genetics, physiology and endocrinology. In the social sciences, the largest grant went to the Welfare Council of New York City, and several universities, including Oxford, and other bodies, received support. In the humanities, grants supplementing former assistance were made to the Bodleian Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Foundation appropriated funds for the “Dictionary of American Biography”, the “Historical Dictionary of American English”, and the “Virginia Historical Index” works now in course of preparation.
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Report of the Rockefeller Foundation. Nature 137, 652 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137652c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137652c0