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although none have as yet been accepted, it is 

 the purpose of the corporation to lend its 

 aid to the utilization of any invention or dis- 

 covery which offers sufficient promise of pro- 

 moting the application of scientific discovery 

 to the industrial arts. 



For the purpose of encouraging scientific 

 research directed to the development of the 

 industrial arts the research corporation offers 

 a fellowship of the annual value of $2,500, to 

 be awarded on competition under the follow- 

 ing conditions : 



1. The competition will consist of the submis- 

 sion of evidence of scientific attainments, discov- 

 eries or inventions, and of special fitness for ad- 

 vanced work. 



2. All persons desiring to compete must fill in a 

 form of application, which will be furnished by 

 the secretary of the corporation upon request, and 

 file the same on or before October 1, 1917, to- 

 gether with such letters of reference, scientific pub- 

 lications and other documents or evidence as they 

 may desire to submit, including a specific state- 

 ment of the particular field or object of the re- 

 search or investigation which the competitor pro- 

 poses to conduct and a pledge that he wiU devote 

 himself faithfully to the prosecution of such re- 

 search or investigation if awarded the fellowship. 



3. The competition shall be decided on or before 

 December 1, 1917, by a jury consisting of the 

 president of the National Academy of Sciences, 

 the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the 

 presidents of the American Chemical Society and 

 Research Corporation, respectively, and the chair- 

 man of the Engineering Foundation, or such per- 

 sons as they may respectively designate to act for 

 them. 



4. The term of the fellowship shall be one year 

 from the date of the award, but the term may be 

 extended by the corporation for two renewals of 

 one year each in exceptional cases upon the recom- 

 mendation of the jury. 



5. The stipend of each fellowship will be paid 

 as follows: $300 on the award of the fellowship 

 and $200 monthly thereafter for the remainder of 

 the year. 



6. Fellows will be required to report in writing 

 at the of&ce of the corporation within twenty days 

 from the date of the award (unless the time shall 

 be extended) and to begin their research or in- 

 vestigation at once. In case of their failure to do 

 so, or in case they shall fail to prosecute the same 



with proper attention, the fellowship may be ter- 

 minated by the corporation. 



7. Any fellow who shall resign or retire before 

 the conclusion of the term of his appointment, or 

 who shall be dismissed by the directors of the cor- 

 poration for cause, will forfeit all privileges and 

 emoluments of his fellowship and have no claim to 

 the further payment of his stipend. 



8. The corporation will endeavor to secure for 

 fellows the privileges of laboratories specially 

 adapted for their particular work. 



9. Each fellow shaU make a written report to 

 the corporation at the conclusion of his appoint- 

 ment of the results of the research or investiga- 

 tion which he has conducted. Any discovery or in- 

 vention which he may make shall be deemed his 

 personal property. 



ANTHRACITE COAL MINED IN 1916 



The anthracite mined in 1916 amounted to 

 78,195,083 gross tons, valued at $202,009,561, a 

 decrease in quantity of 1.6 per cent, and an 

 increase in value of 9.4 per cent, compared 

 with 1915. The shipments decreased 1.7 per 

 cent.— from 68,666,456 gross tons in 1915 to 

 67,501,363 tons in 1916. The shipments of 

 prepared coal of sizes above pea in 1916 were 

 40,747,215 tons, a decrease of 1.1 per cent.; 

 the shipments of pea size were 7,520,804 tons, 

 a decrease of 8.4 per cent. ; and the shipments 

 of steam sizes smaller than pea were 19,233,- 

 344 tons, a decrease of but .05 per cent, com- 

 pared with 1915. There was an increase of 

 nearly 6 per cent, in the quantity of anthracite 

 sold locally and used by employees and a de- 

 crease of 2.4 per cent, in the quantity used 

 for mine fuel. The compilation of these sta- 

 tistics has just been completed by C. E. 

 Lesher, of the TJnited States Geological 

 Survey, Department of the Interior. 



The effect of the extraordinary demand for 

 steam sizes of anthracite that followed the in- 

 dustrial activity in 1916 and the high price of 

 bituminous coal is indicated in the figures 

 showing the output of washery product and 

 di-edge coal. Although the freshly mined coal 

 in the anthracite region, including Sullivan 

 County, showed a decrease of 2.6 per cent, in 

 1916 compared with 1915 there was an in- 

 crease of 19.6 per cent, in the quantity of 

 anthracite obtained from the washeries, which 



