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Leverhulme Research Fellowships THE following Leverhulme Research Fellowships, tenable for varying periods up to two years, have recently been awarded for the research indicated: T. Burton Brown (Armenian archæology in pre-Christian and early Christian periods); W. H. B Court, lecturer in economic history, university of Birmingham (India and British economic policy in the past century); Dr. W. Cule Davies, lecturer in chemistry, University College, Cardiff (studies of the organic compounds of nitrogen, phosphorus and arsenic); Dr. R. M. Davies, lecturer in physics, University College, Aberystwyth (experimental investigations on turbulent flow in an air-tunnel); R. Dennell, assistant lecturer in zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (structure and physiology of the luminous organs of Atlantic deep-sea Crustacea); Prof. G. R. Driver, professor of Semitic philology, Oxford (languages and customs of the Semitic East); Dr. R. W. Firth, reader in anthropology, University of London (social structure and economic organization of rural Malays); D. Ll. Griffiths, clinical assistant, Orthopædic Department, Manchester Royal Infirmary (comparison of radiological and histological features in bone tumours); A. E. Ingham, University lecturer in mathematics, Cambridge (analytical theory of numbers); Dr. B. Jones, lecturer in chemistry, University of Sheffield (a study of reaction kinetics in solution); Dr. F. D. Klingender, investigator, Research Group, Political and Economic Planning (a survey of the social relations of scientific research in Great Britain); Dr. S. Maccoby, assistant master, Wolsingham Grammar School, Bishop Auckland, Durham (the character and influence of Radicalism, 1768–1832); Dr. E. B. Maxted, special lecturer in catalysis, University of Bristol (studies in catalyst poisoning); D. A. O'Duffy, research and development assistant, Bahrein Petroleum Company (lubrication problems at high temperatures and pressures); Dr. A. H. Smith, reader in English, University of London (scientific methods of dealing with damaged, imperfect and illegible medieval manuscripts); L. F. Taylor, late research lecturer in Indo-Chinese ethnography and linguistics, University College, Rangoon (an ethnographical and linguistic survey of Burma); Miss M. L. Tildesley, chairman of the Comité de Standardisation de la Technique anthropologique, London (definition, measurements and classification of anthropometric characters); Dr. W. A. Waters, lecturer in chemistry, University of Durham (mechanisms of reactions involving free organic radicals); Prof. E. L. E. Wheatcroft, professor of electrical engineering, University of Leeds (mechanism of development of electric sparks with reference to lightning discharges); Miss D. Whitelock, fellow and tutor in the English language. St. Hilda's College, Oxford (an edition of the Historia Eliensis, Parts I and II).
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Fellowships for Scientific and Medical Research. Nature 144, 168 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144168a0
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