May 16, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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A LIST OF THE INDUSTRIAL FELLOWSHIPS IN OPERATION AT THE MELLON INSTITUTE ON MABCH 1, 1919 



(Concluded) 



No. 190 — bread B. A. Kohman (Ph.D., University of Kansas), senior $10,000 a year. 



fellow. March 1, 1921. 



Roy Irvin (M.S., University of Kansas). Bonus: $10,000. 

 K. J. Cross (B.A., Leland Stanford Jr. University). 



No. 191 — fruit beverages ... H. A. Noyes (M.S., Massachusetts Agricultural Col- $3,000 a year, 



lege). March 1, 1920. 



During- the institute year March 1, 1918. to 

 March 1, 1919, there was a marked growth in 

 both the number of industrial fellowships in 

 operation and the amounts subscribed for 

 their support. At the present time there are 

 47 industrial fellowshijjs, and 5 additional 

 ones have been arranged for, to begin just as 

 soon as the necessary laboratory space can be 

 provided. Of these 47 industrial fellowships, 

 35 utilize the services of one research man on 

 each fellowship (individual fellowships), while 

 12 have the intensive work, in each instance, 

 of one or more investigators under the super- 

 vision of a senior fellow (multiple fellow- 

 ships). Of these two types of industrial fel- 

 lowships, 9 have been founded by associations 

 of manufacturers and these association fellow- 

 ships serve in all 2,700 company members. 



The following table presents the number of 

 industrial fellowships which have been founded 

 in the institute from March to March of each 

 year, 1911 to 1919; the number of industrial 

 fellows (research chemists and engineers) who 

 have been employed thereon; and the total 

 amounts of money contributed for their main- 

 tenance by the industrial fellowship donors 

 (industrialists and associations of manu- 

 facturers) : 



The total amount of money contributed by 

 industrial firms to the institute for the eight 

 years ending March 1, 1919, was $919,745. 



During the eight years, the institute itself 

 expended over $330,000 in taking care of over- 

 head exxjenses — salaries of members of per- 

 manent staff and office force, maintenance of 

 building, apparatus, etc. — in connection with 

 the oijeration of the industrial fellowships. 

 Besides this amount, the building and per- 

 manent equipment of the institute, which 

 make it the most complete and modem in- 

 dustrial experiment station in the country, 

 represent an investment of about $350,000. 



The administration of the Mellon Institute 

 is now constituted as follows : EajTUond F. 

 Bacon, Sc.D., director; Edward E. Weidlein, 

 M.A., associate director; E. Ward Tillotson, 

 Jr., Ph.D., assistant director; William A. 

 Hamor, M.A., assistant director; David S. 

 Pratt, Ph.D.. assistant director; Harry S. 

 Coleman, B.S., assistant director. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES 



The Geological Survey has recently pub- 

 lished as its Bulletin 660 its annual volume 

 entitled " Contributions to Economic Geology 

 (short papers and preliminary reports), 1917. 

 Part I. Metals and Nonmetals Except Fuels." 

 This bulletin contains 11 papers describing 

 deposits of ores of iron, manganese, tin, anti- 

 mony, lead, silver and gold in widely separated 

 parts of the United States and deposits of 

 greensand, clay, and strontianite. The short- 

 age of manganese, which is used extensively 

 in hardening steel, and the high prices result- 

 ing from its scarcity, caused the survey to 

 examine undeveloped deposits in western Ar- 

 kansas and in Shenandoah Valley, Va., the 

 results of which are described in " Manganese 

 Deposits of the Caddo Gap and De Queen 

 quadrangles. Ark.," by H. D. Miser, and " Pos- 

 sibilities for Manganese Ore on Certain Un- 



