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of 52). 85. Copper (continuation of 72). 86. 

 Pharmaceutical Products (continuation of 55). 

 87. Washer Waste. 88. Soda (continuation of 

 47). 90. Gas (continuation of 62). 91. Coke. 

 92. Leather Belting. 93. Collars (continuation of 

 60). 94. Coffee. 95. Magnesia. 96. Machinery 

 (continuation of 58). 97. Oil (continuation of 

 64). 98. Paints (continuation of 50). 99. Gly- 

 ceryl Phosphates (continuation of 66). 100. 

 Fiber. 101. Milling (continuation of 59). 102. 

 Fruit Juice. 103. By-products Eeeovery. 104. 

 Copper (continuation of 85). 105. lUmiiination 

 (continuation of 73). 106. Silverware. 107. Cot- 

 tonseed. 108. Insecticides. 109. Refractories 

 (Glass). 110. Toilet Articles. 111. Distillation. 

 112. Laundering (continuation of 80). 113. 

 Flavoring (continuation of 75). 114. Enameling. 

 115. Bread (continuation of 48). 



The Mellon Institute is now active in pro- 

 moting the progress of science and in stimu- 

 lating further inquiry by making available to 

 the workers in pure and applied science com- 

 plete and detailed reports of researches con- 

 ducted under its auspices;* it maintains an 

 attitude of welcome towards prospective in- 

 dustrial research organization'^ and has estab- 

 lished stable cooperative relations with other 

 research laboratories; and it is continuing its 

 policy of educating the public to the realizable 

 functions of research.^ While effectively com- 



* Twenty-two journal contributions were made 

 during the past Institute year. For a list of the 

 scientific papers published by the Institute from 

 1911-1914, see Bacon, J. FranM. Inst., November, 

 1914, 629-32. Eighteen journal articles were pub- 

 lished by the Institute during 1914-1915 (Sparks 

 and Noyes, Science, N. S., Vol. XLV. (1917), 

 169). 



5 The following institutions have entered the 

 field of industrial research : the universities of Kan- 

 sas, Washington, Toronto and Akron, the Georgia 

 School of Technology and the University of Fin- 

 land (Helsingfors, Finland). The establishment of 

 industrial fellowships in accordance with the prac- 

 tical system in operation at the Mellon Institute, is 

 being considered by Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Harvard University, Washington State 

 College, McGiU University, University of Sheffield 

 (England), Sir John Cass Technical Institute 

 (London), Sydney University (New South Wales, 

 Australia), and University of Tokyo (Japan). 



« See, in this connection, Bacon, Science, N. S., 

 Vol. XLV. (1917), 34. 



batting pseudo-research in industry by reduc- 

 ing the cost of systematic investigation to a 

 minimum, the Mellon Institute has been able 

 to demonstrate to industrialists that, under 

 favorable conditions, numerous manufacturing 

 problems can be advantageously studied out- 

 side of plant laboratories. This has resulted 

 in the extension of the practise of referring 

 certain of the problems of industry to univer- 

 sity laboratories for study.' However, this 

 cooperative relation must be stabilized and 

 promoted by the demonstration of its advan- 

 tages by the institutional laboratories involved. 

 About seventy per cent, of the problems as- 

 signed to the Mellon Institute for study dur- 

 ing the five years, March, 1911, to March, 1916, 

 were solved to the satisfaction of the donors, 

 and like results can undoubtedly be obtained 

 by similarly well-founded establishments. 

 On every side the research men of our univer- 

 sities are needed for the execution of real at- 

 tainment in the technical world with its diffi- 

 cidties, wastes and unexplored lines of manu- 

 facturing. 



The administration of the Mellon Institute 

 is now constituted as follows : 

 Eaymond F. Bacon, Ph.D., Director; 

 Edward R. Weidlein, M.A., Associate Director ; 

 Samuel E. Scholes, Ph.D., Assistant Director; 

 E. "Ward Tillotson, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant 



Director ; 

 John J. O'Connor, Jr., M.A., Assistant Di- 

 rector ; 

 Martin A. EosanofF, Sc.D., Head of the De- 

 partment of Eeaearch in Pure Chemistry. 



E. F. Bacon 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 March 1, 1917 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



GRANTS FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL 



RESEARCH IN ENGLAND 



When the establishment of a separate de- 

 partment of scientific and industrial research 

 was announced in December last, Lord Crewe 



7 For detailed presentments of the present-day 

 technoehemical problems which could be referred to 

 university laboratories for investigation, see Bacon, 

 J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 7 (1915), 535; and J. Soc. 

 Chem. Ind., 36 (1917), 9. 



