Fifty-two grants and two contracts, totaling more than three-quarters of a million dollars, have been approved by the National Science Foundation under its programs for the support of basic research in the physical and the biological sciences. The list of awards, made public on October 21st, includes thirteen grants in physics with an outlay of $184,900, which amounts to about one-fourth of the total. In addition, a number of awards itemized under other categories are of interest to physicists, some of them primarily so. Approximately thirty percent of the total funds have been awarded for research in the biological sciences. Of the remaining amount, fourteen percent was for work in chemistry, five percent in engineering, and the rest in astronomy, the earth sciences, mathematics, and miscellaneous projects in science and scientific education.