Valuable Award Secured
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By Fiji Chemist
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, April 23.
TPHE Commonwealth Fund of New * York, a philanthropic foundation existing since 1918, has awarded a fellow ship for 15 months’ biochemical study in the United States to Mr. W. J. Blackie, Government Chemist in the Agriculture Department.
Mr. Blackie has obtained leave from the Fiji Government to take up the fellowship.
Each year fellowships are offered by the Commonwealth Fund to enable Brit ish subjects to attend an American university to carry out special research work. Five fellowships have been awarded for 1937, and it is estimated that the value of each is about 3,000 dollars (£750 Aust.U Mr. Gregory Bateson, M.A., who car ried out research work in anthropology in New Guinea for several years, has written a book entitled “Naven,” which has just been published bv the Cambridge University Press. It deals with a re markable ceremony which he found and studied among the head-hunting latmul people of the Sepik River.