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THE forty-first annual report of the executive committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (Edinburgh : Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland) covers the year 1941-42. The method of interim distribution begun in the academic year 1940-41 was again employed, the annual grants being subjected to a 10 per cent deduction to safeguard the position at the close of hostilities. It has now been arranged that application for grants for research may be made at any time during the year and will be considered by the Executive Committee at such times as may be found convenient. With regard to assistance to students, there was a decrease of 184 beneficiaries in 1941-42 as against 1940-41, the fall being almost wholly among male students, and the decrease was greatest in the faculty of arts; in the faculty of medicine there has been an increase, whereas in the faculty of science the figures have remained relatively steady. The year has been noticeable for the number of repayments made by Scottish graduates now abroad. Appendixes include a report upon the work of investigators under the research scheme during the academic year 1941-42, in which reference is made to work on the synthesis of methyl-glucoses and related studies, the attempted synthesis of a bisisoquinoline derivative with a structure related to that of emetine, to work on the chemistry of penicillin, investigations on the eel-worm disease of potatoes, the reliability of mental tests, and to Dr. A. P. Hickie's work under Dr. W. O. Kermack at the Royal College of Physicians' Laboratory, Edinburgh, on the preparation of pyrido-quinoline compounds with a constitutional relation to compounds of known anti-malarial activity.
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Carnegie Trust Of Universities Of Scotland. Nature 151, 694 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151694a0
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