The Rockefeller Foundation is an organization chartered in 1913 for the permanent purpose of 'promoting the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' Its present program is concerned with certain definite problems in the medical, natural, and social sciences, the humanities, and public health. For work in these fields in 1940 the Foundation appropriated approximately $9,800,000. A statement of representative grants follows.
Medical Sciences.
In the field of medicine the Foundation's interest is centered in mental and nervous diseases and its contributions are chiefly for the furtherance of research and teaching in psychiatry and allied subjects. Appropriations for this work in 1940 include: $175,000 to Duke University for establishment and development of a division of psychiatry and mental hygiene in the School of Medicine; $106,000 to Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for teaching and research in psychiatry; $57,000 to Harvard Medical School for research in epilepsy; $37,000 to Worcester State Hospital for research in dementia praecox; $30,000 to Tufts College Medical School for research in brain chemistry; $25,000 to Tufts College for research in neurology; $23,000 to the Johns Hopkins University for the support of the subdepartment of neurology; $18,250 to the University of Edinburgh for research in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery; $12,500 to the American Psychiatric Association for the expenses of teaching conferences for professional personnel of state mental hospitals; $42,000 to Columbia University for researches in endocrinology in the department of anatomy.
Natural Sciences.
The Foundation's program in the natural sciences is concerned almost entirely with experimental biology. Among the appropriations in this field in 1940 were: $1,150,000 to the University of California for the construction, housing, and installation of a giant cyclotron designed to produce a beam of from a hundred million to three hundred million volts; $200,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the development of biological engineering; $110,400 to the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, for constructing and furnishing an addition to its library; $55,000 to the University of Chicago for research in spectroscopic biology; $45,000 to the California Institute of Technology for the development of chemistry in its relation to biological problems; $24,000 to the State University of Iowa for research in cellular biology; $21,000 to Iowa State College for research in genetics; $20,000 to Indiana University for research in cytogenetics: $13,500 to the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for special research in genetics; $12,000 to the California Institute of Technology for research in serological genetics; $15,000 to the University of Texas for research on growth-promoting substances; $40,000 to Princeton University for research in organic chemistry.
Social Sciences.
The Foundation's fields of interest in the social sciences at the present time are social security, public administration, and international relations. Appropriations in 1940 included $105,000 to the University of Pennsylvania toward support of the Industrial Research Department of the Wharton School; $105,000 to the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University toward the support of its work in economics; $15,000 to the Social Science Research Council for use by its Committee on Social Security; $11,500 to the University of Minnesota for the study of employment and unemployment in St. Paul; $60,000 to Stanford University toward the support of the research program of the Food Research Institute; $10,000 to the New School for Social Research for its Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science; $10,000 to the Bureau of Business Research of the University of Alabama for a study of commodity production in the Southwest; $105,000 to the National Institute of Public Affairs for experimentation in recruiting and training personnel for Federal services; $20,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research for studies in fiscal policy; $39,000 to the University of Minnesota for its public service training program; $15,000 to the Social Science Research Council for the use of its Public Administration Committee; $24,000 to the University of Oxford for its Social Studies Research Committee for a continuation of previous activities and new war-time studies.
The Humanities.
The program in the humanities is concerned with the means, such as museums, motion pictures, radio, drama, and libraries, by which cultural levels of contemporary society are being influenced, and with the promotion of better international understanding through cultural interchanges. Appropriations in these fields in 1940 included $60,000 to the Museum of Modern Art for the support of its Film Library; $20,160 to the New School for Social Research for experimental demonstrations of music in film production; $35,400 to Columbia University for studies in radio listening; $18,500 to the Rocky Mountain Radio Council toward its expenses; $20,000 to Cornell University for a state-wide program in music and drama; $25,000 to Stanford University for work in drama; $19,500 to Yale University for expenses of developing and testing equipment in theater lighting; $50,000 to the Folger Shakespeare Library toward the purchase and cataloguing of books and manuscripts; $25,000 to the American Library in Paris for general expenses; $35,000 to Brown University for collections of material on early American history and Hispanic culture; $15,000 to the Argentine-North American Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires for development of its program of teaching English, drama, and the creative arts; $25,000 to Duke University, $25,000 to the University of North Carolina, and $18,000 to Tulane University for the purchase of Latin-American books.
Public Health.
The Foundation appropriated $2,000,000 for the work of its International Health Division in 1940. This work included research on a number of selected diseases, among them, yellow fever, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, the common cold, rabies, syphilis, and intestinal parasitism: demonstrations in the control of certain of these diseases in their environments; cooperation with governments in the organization or improvement of important services of central or local health departments; and the development of public health education. Fellowships in public health were provided; and public health personnel were given opportunities for training in connection with the health demonstrations and through travel.
Officers.
The executive officers of the Foundation in 1940 were Walter W. Stewart, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Raymond B. Fosdick, President; Thomas B. Appleget and Selskar M. Gunn, Vice-Presidents; Alan Gregg, M.D., Director for the Medical Sciences; Warren Weaver, Director for the Natural Sciences; Joseph H. Willits, Director for the Social Sciences; David H. Stevens, Director for the Humanities; Wilbur A. Sawyer, M.D., Director of the International Health Division; Norma S. Thompson, Secretary; Edward Robinson, Treasurer; George J. Beal, Comptroller; Thomas M. Debevoise, Counsel; and Chauncey Belknap, Associate Counsel. The offices of the Foundation are at 49 West 49th Street, New York City.
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