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(University of Kansas). Scholar: E. Lee 

 Wharton (University of Pittsburgh). (Octo- 

 ber 1, 1915.) 



No. 66: Olycero-Phosphates. — $1,500 a year 

 for one year. Bonus : 10 per cent, of profits. 

 Fellow: Frank F. Eupert, Ph.D. (Mass. Inst. 

 Tech.). (October 1, 1915.) 



No. 67: Glass Bottles.— $2,100 a year for one 

 year. Fellow: John F. W. Schulze, Ph.D. 

 (Clark University). (December 1, 1915.) 



No. 68: Illuminating Glass. — $900 a year for 

 two years. Fellow: A. H. Stewart, A.B. 

 (Washington & Jefferson). (October 1, 1915.) 



No. 69: Linoleum. — $2,500 a year for one 

 year. Fellow: Lester E. Cover, B.S. (Penn- 

 sylvania State College). (!N"ovember 1, 1915.) 



No. 70: Gum. — $2,500 a year for one year. 

 Bonus: $6,000. Fellow: M. A. Gordon, B.S. 

 (Cornell University). (ISTovember 15, 1915.) 



No. 71 : Stoves. — $2,300 a year for one year. 

 Fellow : A. E. Blake, M.S. (University of Pitts- 

 burgh). (October 20, 1915.) 



No. 72: Copper. — $6,500 a year for one year. 

 Fellows: E. E. Weidlein, M.A. (University of 

 Kansas) ; G. A. Bragg, B.S. (University of 

 Kansas). (November 1, 1915.) 



No. 7S: Illumination. — $6,000 a year for one 

 year. Bonus: $5,000. Fellows: George O. 

 Curme, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Senior 

 FeUow; H. B. Heyn, B.S. (University of Wis- 

 consin) ; Glen D. Bagley, M.S.E.E. (Univer- 

 sity of Illinois). (November 15, 1915.) 



No. 76: Coal Tar Products.— %11,000 a year 

 for one year. Fellows : E. E. Shively, Ph.D. 

 (University of Pittsburgh) ; F. E. Peters, A.B. 

 (Wabash College). (Three more Fellows to be 

 appointed.) (December 1, 1915.) 



Special Research WorJc. — E. P. Eose, M.S. 

 (University of Kansas); E. W. Miller, M.S. 

 (Kansas State College). 



The conspicuous success which has attended 

 the development of the system of service to 

 industry founded by Dr. Duncan may be at- 

 tributed to several factors. First among these, 

 however, is the research strength of the Mel- 

 lon Institute; this investigative power has 

 resulted from the facilities for research and 

 has been developed by the administrative staff. 

 It has inspired an abiding confidence among 



industrialists and has eventuated in the con- 

 sequent renewal, year after year, of industrial 

 fellowships in fields which require constant 

 inquiry, such as those represented by the fel- 

 lowships numbered 19, 48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 

 58, 64, 67, 68 and 72. 



Several of the multiple fellowships — ones 

 which have the intensive services of two or 

 more researchers under the direction of a 

 senior fellow — established at the Mellon Insti- 

 tute have been effectively at work since the 

 foundation of that institution, and a number 

 of investigations utilizing the services of one 

 man — individual fellowships — have been pro- 

 moted continuously for the past three years. 

 Thus, although this must be regarded as a very 

 short interval in the career of an institution 

 whose history should be measured by decades, 

 it has been long enough to afford opportunities 

 for the development of ideas and ideals con- 

 cerning the conduct of industrial research. 

 The practical results of the research experience 

 of the Mellon Institute are rich in applicable 

 instruction and should be useful to the inde- 

 pendent organizations which will probably 

 enter the field of industrial research in the 

 near futiu'e. 



The proposal has been made to establish 

 state industrial research bureaus, to be con- 

 ducted along the same general administrative 

 lines as the various agricultural experiment 

 stations, and some progress has, in fact, been 

 made in this direction, for the University of 

 Kansas has, in its department of chemistry, a 

 division of state chemical research. Then, 

 too, the Eoyal Canadian Institute has lately 

 inaugurated a bureau of scientific and indus- 

 trial research, based upon the system in opera- 

 tion at the Mellon Institute, and several educa- 

 tional institutions are contemplating similar 

 steps in England.'' The experience of the in- 

 dustrial research institutions now in operation, 

 which is certain to be drawn upon heavily in 

 the movement to make the research work of the 



7 For English appreciations of the system of in- 

 dustrial research in operation at the Mellon In- 

 stitute, see Sir William Eamsay and G. G. Hender- 

 son, J. Sac. Cliem. Ind., 34, 751 and 753; and 

 Humberstone, Quart. Bev., 224, Nos. 445, 521. 



