BRITISH GRANTS FOR RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 2

BRITISH GRANTS FOR RESEARCH

Study Of Sea Urchins, Pirates, Funerals (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)

LONDON, August 30. The University of London Gazette, which publishes details of 124 research grants amounting to £14,000 made from its central research fund, lists one of £7 “for research on some aspects of piracy and privateering connected with Kingswear and Dartmouth,” and one of £2O for a student to visit Germany to discover “the development of the use and the meaning of the words ‘from herro’ and ‘truhtin in Old High German.” Tire highest grant, £2OOO, went to a professor of engineering for apparatus to carry out research on magnetic materials. A lecturer in zoology was granted £42 for expenses in the Isle of Man while he studies “the functional morphology of the alimentary canal of the sea urchin. Echinus esculentus." He fed the sea urchins with iron saccharate to discover the relation between these heartless invertebrates and the blood circulation of humans. He is now writing a thesis suggesting that the primitive function of blood circulation was entirely nutritive. Other grants were: £5O to buy a vacuum pump “for research in the kinetics of the dehydrochlorination of substituted ethanes:” £4O towards investigations in Paris into the activities of British agents in France during the Revolution: £34 for research into the repercussions of economic conditions on the present-dav agricultural parts of Herefordshire: £25 to defray the cost of cutting thin sections for research into the cementation of some tertiary sands from East Centra) Venezuela; £3O for investigating Anglo-Saxon funeral customs.