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and choice in connection with such very- 

 simple material as they used, is much too 

 limited to give an adequate idea of an ob- 

 server's personality, and for this reason, 

 unless the experimental material were 

 enormously increased and the method so 

 modified as to introduce other mental ac- 

 tivities than will, I am confident the use of 

 this method also, as regards the image 

 method, would be one of control and sup- 

 port and perhaps of supplementation. 

 Taken all in all, it seems to me, the image 

 method is more information bringing than 

 any of other methods which have been pro- 

 posed. 



In the way of a general summary and 

 conclusion it may be said that the results 

 everywhere show that images are not iso- 

 lated entities, but are closely bound to- 

 gether, supporting and supplementing each 

 other as information-bearers and that for 

 this reason one gets through taking them 

 apparently at random, typical examples of 

 the entire range of an individual's imag- 

 ery. Since images are in general the 

 "high-points" of unanschaulich thinking, 

 one may also obtain from them a very com- 

 plete idea of an individual's general man- 

 ner of thinking and acting. Stated briefly, 

 the experiments show that the image 

 method is a mode of "sampling" which is 

 adequate for a satisfactory diagnosis of a 

 personality. 



LiLLiEN J. Mabtin 



Stanpord XIniversitt 



THE INDUSTRIAL FELLOWSHIPS OF 

 THE MELLON INSTITUTE i 



It is again my privilege to report to Science 

 progressive growth in both the number of in- 



1 For previous reports on the status of the sys- 

 tem of cooperation between science and industry in 

 operation at the Mellon Institute, see Duncan, 

 Science, N, S., Vol. XXXIX. (1914), 672; and 

 Bacon, ibid., XLIII. (1916), 453. 



dustrial fellowships in operation and the 

 amounts subscribed for their support. This 

 makes evident the confidence which indus- 

 trialists have in the Mellon Institute and the 

 genuine value to industry of the industrial 

 fellowship system. 



The following table presents the number of 

 industrial fellowships which have been estab- 

 lished at the Mellon Institute from March to 

 March of each year, 1911 to 1917; the number 

 of researchers, or industrial fellows, who have 

 been employed thereon, and the total amounts 

 of money contributed for their maintenance 

 by the industrial fellowship donors. 



As indicated in last year's report,^ when the 

 industrial fellowship system passed out of its 

 experimental stage — when the Mellon Insti- 

 tute occupied its permanent home in Febru- 

 ary, 1915 — twenty-three fellowships were in 

 operation, while on March 1, 1916, there were 

 thirty-six fellowships. It was mentioned in 

 that report that the growth of the institute 

 had about reached the stage where we should 

 be obliged to decline further industrial inves- 

 tigations temporarily, since our laboratories 

 were almost filled up to capacity. ISTotwith- 

 standing that fact, the impetus imparted to 

 the investigational activity in American chem- 

 ical manufacturing, the direct result of the 

 appreciation of urgent action in industrial re- 

 search, induced us to arrange for the accept- 

 ance of six new fellowships during the insti- 

 tute year, March 1, 1916, to March 1, 1917. 

 At the present time (March 1, 1917) there are 

 forty-two fellowships and four additional ones 

 have recently been arranged for, to begin later 

 in the year. 



2 Science, N. S., Vol. XLIII. (1916), 453. 



