Table VII 



Analysis of Returns on Questionnaires Sent to Industrial Laboratories 



and Nonprofit Science Institutes 



[1939 data] 

 Industrial Laboratories 



Nonprofit Science Institutes 



' Includes expenditures for equipment, apparatus, technical and research assistance, publishing costs 

 Associated with research, field trips, expeditions, etc. 



2 1 and 7 are large electrical companies; 2 is a communications company; 3 and 4 are oil companies; 5 is a 

 large and 9 a small chemical concern; 6 is a meat-packing company; 8 is a glass company; and 10 is a large 

 pharmaceutical firm. 



= 1 and 2 are institutions for medical research ; 3, 4, and 5 for biological research ; 6 and 7 for research in the 

 physical sciences. 



is a large privately endowed univer- 

 sity, associated with a large State ag- 

 ricultural school. No. 6 is an impor- 

 tant engineering school. No. 7 is a 

 medium-size liberal arts university. 



In engineering de-partments, the 

 teaching schedule is generally con- 

 siderably heavier than in physics, 

 chemistry and biologv; often it runs 

 to 18 class-room hours per week. In 

 some institutions, however, the teach- 

 ing schedule for engineers is no 

 heavier than in other departments 

 of the university. 



hi the medical sciences, teaching 



(prewar) was frequently concen- 

 trated in one 4-month term, during 

 which time the teaching load was 

 fairly heavy; but the remaining 8 

 months commonly involved little or 

 no teaching. Some institutions devi- 

 ate from this pattern, but, on the 

 whole, facultv members in the medi- 

 cal sciences tend to have a large frac- 

 tion of their time available for re- 

 search. 



In several institutions the amount 

 of teaching done by men in the 

 lower academic ranks was consider- 

 ably higher than for the full and 



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