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f ul operation of this fellowship and of its ultimate 

 results. 



14. This fellowship has already yielded the es- 

 sentials of an important industrial process. It has 

 a very large importance to the institute, owing to 

 the fact that the donor has made over aU results to 

 the institute to be used for the establishment of 

 further researches by the institute. 



15. The laboratory investigation of this subject 

 has been completed and its large-scale working is 

 now being arranged for. Pending the completion 

 of the large-scale operation, the fellowship has 

 been extended. 



16. This investigation has proved so important 

 that it has been extended through the addition of 

 another fellowship, No. 24, at $1,500 a year, and, 

 subsequently, of still another, No. 29, at $6,000 a 

 year. 



17. The original object of this fellowship proved 

 impossible of an industrial solution, owing to the 

 fact that investigation of the plant concerned 

 showed that it contained nothing of potential in- 

 dustrial value. The object of the investigation was 

 thereupon changed and the ultimate results are not 

 yet determinable. 



18. Was established by the same company on 

 the basis of the success of No. 4. While it has 

 been in operation only since September, it already 

 unquestionably deserves its bonus. 



19. A fellowship yielding results of prime im- 

 portance. 



20. Was established on the basis of the success 

 of No. 5. 



21. Was established on the basis of the success 

 of No. 6. 



22. Is already unquestionably successful. 



23. A most interesting fellowship on a most in- 

 teresting subject. This research is remarkable in 

 that the donor desires that the institute should re- 

 ceive for its own purposes 70 per cent, of the re- 

 sults. 



24. Established in correlation with No. 16. It is 

 already yielding promising results. 



25. A strong fellowship in operation only since 

 September. 



26. This fellowship was transferred from the 

 University of Kansas. It has already yielded an 

 important industrial process. 



27. It is impossible to forecast the end of this 

 fellowship. 



28. Begins operation on January 5, 1914. 



29. Was established in cooperation with fellow- 

 ships No. 24 and No. 16. The results of this fel- 



lowship would probably justify the total expenses 

 of the whole fellowship system. 



30. Went into operation a month ago. 



31. Has been accepted but is not yet signed. 



32. Has been accepted but is not yet signed. 



In the spring of 1912 owing to Ul health, the re- 

 sult of too much responsibility, arrangements were 

 made to give me an associate director. Dr. Ray- 

 mond F. Bacon, who came to me from the Bureau 

 of C!hemistry at Washington. Dr. Bacon 's scien- 

 tific prescience, his suggestive power in research, 

 together with his sympathetic understanding of the 

 traditions of the work and his personal loyalty 

 have made him an ideal associate. Since the spring 

 of 1913, he has been aided in his work of super- 

 vision through the appointment of Dr. E. Ward 

 TiHotson as assistant director. Dr. Tillotson has 

 already established the success of several fellow- 

 ships through his personal supervision. 



The administration of the institute consists at 

 present of the director, with the associate director 

 and assistant director. Their work of direction, 

 and supervision is greatly lightened by the senior 

 fellows. It should be pointed out that the fellow- 

 ships of the institute consist of two kinds, indi- 

 vidual and multiple fellowships. An individual 

 fellowship utilizes the services of one man, di- 

 rectly responsible to the administration; a mul- 

 tiple fellowship, the intensive services of several 

 men under the direction of a senior fellow who in 

 turn is directly responsible and under the adminis- 

 tration. There are seven senior fellows in the in- 

 stitute. The adequate supervision of the thirty- 

 nine fellows at present in the institute is in this 

 way entirely practicable and explains the results 

 obtained. 



The $97,400 per year at present being expended 

 by this institute in the various researches in opera- 

 tion have been handed in to the institute by 

 various companies in accordance with a definite 

 agreement between each company concerned and 

 the institute. 



As this whole system of research is locked up in 

 or depends upon these agreements, their importance 

 warrants my insertion at this point of an agree- 

 ment which is deemed by us at this time as repre- 

 sentative of a reasonable arrangement. The one 

 I submit is that of a multiple fellowship in blank. 



company's multiple fellowship ageeement 



(Fellowship No. XXIX.) 

 This Agreement made and entered into this 

 day of 1913, between the 



