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[3 Scientific Problems of Human Migration: Wissler
In ~923, a second grant of $5000 was made by the same Foundation, as
a further contribution to the administration expenses of the Committee,
the unexpended balances of which funds were carried over to the end of
the year ~927.
The Committee having formulated the program, as indicated in this
report, the National Research Council received from the Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Memorial a grant of $60,000 for the year ~923-~924. This
fund was to be used for making grants in support of approved projects
and to be available for the year beginning July I, ~923.
Subsequent grants were made from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial, as follows: $35,too in ~925; $25,ooo in ~926; and $ro,400
in i927
June 30, ~9~6, marked the close of the three-year period within the
limits of which the Committee planned to operate, and by vote of its
members the request to be discharged was transmitted to the Division,
this discharge to take effect automatically as soon as all the incurred
obligations should be fulfilled. A few projects were in need of supple-
mentary support to bring them to the state permitting of publication; one
or two others needed assistance in the final stages of publication. To
meet these needs! and to provide for the additional administrative needs
of the Committee, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial made an
additional grant of $~o,4~o, as previously noted.
In this connection, it should not be overlooked that the various insti-
tutions in which the authorized investigations were carried on, con-
tributed in the way of personnel and equipment, a sum not adequately
estimated, but probably equivalent to the grants made them by the
Committee.
ADMINISTRATION
To the original Chairman of the Committee, Professor Robert M.
Yerkes, then resident Chairman of the National Research Council Divi-
sion of Anthropology and Psychology, is due the credit of the initiation
and organization of the preliminary conferences. He served efficiently
in this capacity until September, ~925, when he found the demands upon
his time in his new professorship at Yale University too great to carry
on as before. Until the summer of ~9~4, he devoted most of his time
to the formulation of policies and recommendations to his Committee,
to consulting with and visiting the several investigators, and to caring
for the routine of the Chairman's office. He organized and presided
over two conferences of the investigators, the first at Cincinnati, Ohio,
in ~924, the second at Washington, D. C., the following year. In each
case, the conference lasted through two days, a report being made upon
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