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many honors, among them, the degree of LL.D. 

 from the universities of Mississippi, Michi- 

 gan, Columbia and California; the Liebig 

 gold medal from Munich, and others from the 

 expositions of Paris, Rio de Janeiro and St. 

 Louis, as well as the offer of Assistant Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture from President Harrison. 



Although much reduced in vitality during 

 the last three years of his life as the result of 

 an injury, his interest and desire for service 

 in the cause of agriculture were keen and vir- 

 ile, and his great regret, daily expressed to 

 the last, lay in his inability to further pursue 

 his studies of soil and other problems. 



r. h. loughridge 



University op California 



THE INDUSTRIAL FELLOWSHIPS OF 

 THE MELLON INSTITUTE 



Some of the important recent events in con- 

 nection with the operation of the practical 

 system of cooperation between science and in- 

 dustry at the Mellon Institute of Industrial 

 Research of the University of Pittsburgh, have 

 been reported during the past year in this 

 journal. I allude especially to the dedication 

 of the permanent building of the institute,^ 

 the establishment of a school of chemistry at 

 the University of Pittsburgh,^ and the inaugu- 

 ration of Professor M. A. Rosanoff as head of 

 the department of research in pure chemistry 

 of the Mellon Institute.'' In addition, there 

 has been occasion to communicate elsewhere 

 accounts of the graduate school of specific in- 

 dustries of the Mellon Institute* and a discus- 

 sion of the principles involved in the adminis- 

 tration of endowed industrial research labo- 

 ratories.^ However, almost two years have 



iHamor, Science, N. S., 41 (1915), 418. See 

 also Hamor, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 7, 326; Met. 

 Chem. Eng., 13, 266, and Eng. Min. J., 99, 480. 



2 Science, N. S., 42 (1915), 491. See also 

 Met. Chem. Eng., 13, 782; J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 7, 

 1,002, and Vniv. Pgh. Bull., 11, No. 23. 



3 Hamor, Science, N. S., 42 (1915), 636. See 

 also Bogert, iUd., 737. 



* Bacon, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 7, 343; J. FranTc. 

 Inst., November, 1914, 624. 



5 J. Soc. Chem. Ind., 35 (1916), 18-27. 



elapsed since the last report was made to Sci- 

 ence^ on the status of the system of industrial 

 fellowships initiated by the late Dr. Robert 

 Kennedy Duncan at the University of Kansas 

 and later, on September 1, 1911, transferred to 

 the University of Pittsburgh. 



The progressive growth in both the number 

 of industrial fellowships in operation and in 

 the amounts subscribed for their maintenance, 

 is shown in the following table. 



It is of interest to note that when the indus- 

 trial fellowship system passed out of its experi- 

 mental stage — when the Mellon Institute 

 moved into its permanent home in February, 

 1915 — twenty-three fellowships were in opera- 

 tion. At the present time (March 1, 1916) 

 there are thirty-six fellowships and two addi- 

 tional ones have recently been arranged for, 

 to begin later in the year. Sixty-three indus- 

 trial fellows are engaged on the fellowships now 

 in operation. The growth of the institute has 

 about reached the stage where we shall be 

 obliged to decline further industrial investiga- 

 tions for the present, since our laboratories are 

 almost filled up to capacity. 



A LIST OF THE INDUSTRIAL FELLOWSHIPS IN OPERA- 

 TION AT THE MELLON INSTITUTE ON 

 JANUARY 1, 1916 



No. 19: Aluminum. — $5,000 a year for two 

 years ; $5,000 a year for the third year. Bonus : 

 $10,000. PeUows: Lester A. Pratt, Ph.D. 

 (University of Pittsburgh) ; Hugh Clark, 

 Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) ; P. D. Shu- 

 maker, B.S. (University of Pittsburgh). 

 (June 1, 1913.) 



No. 28: Fertilizer. — $2,500 a year for three 

 years. Bonus : $5,000. Fellow : Earl S. Bishop, 

 M.A. (University of ITebraska). (January 5, 

 1914.) 



6 Duncan, Science, 39 (1914), 672. 



