The Ella Sachs Plotz Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Investigation.
—Thirty-two grants were made by the Ella Sachs Plotz Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Investigation during 1938. One of these was a continued annual grant; sixteen of the new grants were made to scientists outside the United States.In the fifteen years of its existence the Foundation has made three hundred and forty grants, which have been distributed to investigators working in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq (Asia), Italy, Latvia, Lebanon (Asia), Netherlands, North Africa, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Venezuela, Yugoslavia and the United States.During the present great need for funds, grants will be given in the sciences closely related to medicine without reference to special fields. The maximum size of grants will usually be less than $500.