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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



A View in one of the Thirty-eight Research Laboratories which hnve been fin- 

 ished and assigned in the New Building of the Mellon Institute. 



The Mellon Institute has its own en- 

 dowment and board of trustees, but is 

 educationally an integral part of the 

 University of Pittsburgh. It is the gift 

 of A. W. Mellon and E. B. Mellon 

 and has been erected at a cost of $350,- 

 000. The donors have also provided 

 $40,000 a year for five years for main- 

 tenance. At the dedicatory exercises 

 Dr. W. J. Holland, director of the Car- 

 negie Museum and formerly chancellor 

 of the university, said: 



In a certain sense, Mr. Chancellor, 

 this building is a memorial to Robert 

 Kennedy Duncan. On one side of the 

 entrance is a bronze slab inscribed with 

 the name of Thomas Mellon; on the 

 other side of the entrance is a bronze 

 slab inscribed with the name of 

 Robert Kennedy Duncan. But, Mr. 

 Chancellor, this splendid edifice erected 

 upon the campus of our university 

 is more than a cenotaph. It not 

 merely commemorates the names and 

 careers of those of whom I have 

 spoken, but it is intended to serve as 

 the seat of advanced inquiries along 

 scientific lines, which will tend to the 

 promotion not merely of intellectual 



culture, but of industrial success, and 

 that not merely in this great "work- 

 shop of the world," where it is located, 

 but throughout the land. In creating 

 this institution our dear friends have 

 been actuated by a high and intelligent 

 { purpose. Large experience in great in- 

 dustrial enterprises has taught them the 

 importance of chemistry and physics in 

 their application to the industrial arts, 

 and they feel that, wonderful as has 

 been the progress made within the last 

 century, there are untold mysteries in 

 nature which have not yet been re- 

 vealed, but which, if uncovered, are 

 capable of being- used for the welfare 

 of mankind. And so they have created 

 and are to-day placing in the custody 

 of you, gentlemen of the board of trus- 

 tees, this institution, which is capable 

 of becoming, when wisely and intelli- 

 gently administered, a mighty imple- 

 ment for the advancement of human 

 welfare. 



The new building of the Mellon In- 

 stitute, as shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, is a five-story and attie 

 building. The basement contains seven 

 rooms: the main storeroom, the boiler 

 room the electric furnace room, a 



