The following announcement is an excerpt from the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Regents held December 20, 1931:
"Dr. Means, Chairman of the Phillips Memorial Prize Committee, reported that his Committee had proceeded according to the revised regulations adopted by the Board of Regents, which were, briefly, that the Committee seek a candidate for the prize rather than invite submission of manuscripts as had been done the year before. After discussing the procedure of his Committee, he presented the name of Dr. O. T. Avery, Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City, with