A PUBLIC appeal for funds has been made by the Academic Assistance Council to enable it to continue its work. The appeal is signed by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Mr. Winston Churchill, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, the Marquess of Crewe, Viscount Halifax, the Marquess of Londonderry and Lord Meston, in their private capacities as members of the university world and not officially as chancellors of British universities. The Council needs funds with which to continue emergency grants-in-aid to approximately seventy of the displaced German scholars for a period of not more than two years, and also for the creation of twenty special research fellowships of a more permanent character. It is essential also that the Council shall be enabled to continue its important work as an information centre and its investigations throughout the world for new positions in which the temporarily assisted scholars may be placed on a self-supporting basis. The Academic Assistance Council has, from the start, emphasised the issues of principle implicit in its work; it has not confined its activities to the displaced German scholars alone. The great importance of the research which the Council has been able to salvage has been demonstrated from time to time during the past two years in our own columns and in those of other scientific journals. As a research subsidising organisation, the Council has, indeed, an impressive record and merits continued support. Donations, subscriptions or bequests should be sent to Lord Rutherford, president, Academic Assistance Council, Rooms of the Royal Society, Burlington House, W.I; cheques should be made payable to the Academic Assistance Council.