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country national in both scope and effort, 

 should be readily available for use by their 

 prospective allies. Their entrance into this 

 field should be warmly welcomed. 'No greater 

 good fortune could come to the Mellon Insti- 

 tute, for example, than a division of labors 

 with a number of similarly well-founded 

 establishments. 



In keeping with this attitude of welcome 

 towards prospective industrial research organi- 

 zations, it is important to add that with them 

 no relations can be stable and helpful, but 

 relations of reciprocity. Cooperation is just as 

 essential among research laboratories as it is 

 among the members of a research team. I may 

 therefore be permitted to indicate one serious 

 danger in connection with the establishment of 

 industrial fellowships which is of concern to 

 the Mellon Institute, and that is the danger 

 that, in order to obtain fellowships, the heads 

 of research departments will " let down the 

 bars." In other words, that they will modify 

 the conditions under which industrial fellow- 

 ships are accepted at the Mellon Institute. 

 This would be a very serious matter and might 

 lead ultimately to the failure of the whole 

 plan. 



The administration of the Mellon Institute 

 is now constituted as follows : 

 Raymond F. Bacon, Ph.D., director; 

 Samuel E. Scholes, Ph.D., assistant director; 

 E. Ward TiUotson, Jr., Ph.D., assistant di- 

 rector ; 

 John J. O'Connor, Jr., M.A., assistant director; 

 "William A. Hamor, M.A., assistant to the 



director ; 

 Martin A. Eosanoff, Se.D., head of the depart- 

 ment of research in pure chemistry. 



Eaymond F. Bacon 



THE NEW JERSEY MOSQUITO 

 ASSOCIATION 



This organization, which has for its object 

 the elimination of the mosquito from the 

 standpoint of himian comfort and the attend- 

 ant property values, held its third annual 

 meeting on February 17 and 18. As might 

 be expected from its purpose the membership 

 is composed of business and professional men 



of all sorts. To become a member it is merely 

 necessary to inform the proper persons that 

 one wishes to become connected with the 

 movement. 'No dues or assessments are levied 

 upon the individual members and the neces- 

 sary expenses are borne by the organizations 

 which belong to it. 



The program of this meeting included five 

 speakers, who were professionally connected 

 with the practical work ; eleven who were iden- 

 tified with it as members of directing boards; 

 two who were responsible for the state work 

 and the correlation of the work of the county 

 units; three who represented the taxpayers 

 who received the benefits and pay the bills; 

 one who represented the Interstate Anti- 

 mosquito Committee ; and one who represented 

 the mosquito work of the country as a whole.' 



One member of the first group, Mr. James 

 E. Brooks, showed that dikes, tide gates, and 

 trenching drain shut-in areas of salt marsh, 

 which the ordinary trenching will not protect, 

 in such a fashion that no serious emergence of 

 mosquitoes takes place. Another member, Mr. 

 William Delaney, pointed out that pumps are 

 necessary on certain enclosed marshes that 

 have shrunken below the sea level, and that a 

 twelve-inch, low-head, motor-driven, centri- 

 fugal pump with necessary trenching removed 

 the water from 800 acres of bad breeding 

 marsh in such a fashion that no serious 

 emergence could occur. 



Another member of this group, Mr. Harold 

 I. Eaton, showed that the average acre cost of 

 salt-marsh trenching for 12,000 acres drained 

 in the last three years was $4.00, and that the 

 price exclusive of administration expense had 

 been reduced from $5.22 in 1913 to $2.Y5 in 

 1915. Another member, Mr. Eussell W. Gies, 

 showed that the average per capita cost of 

 county-wide mosquito control work was about 

 12 cents. Another, Mr. John Dobbins, pointed 

 out the methods, which four years' experience 

 in the practical work had proved to be best for 

 fresh water mosquito control. 



The members of the second group. Dr. Wm. 

 Edgar DArnall, Mr. E. B. Walden, Mr. Joseph 

 Camp, Mr. Spencer Miller, Dr. H. H. Brinker- 

 hoff, Mr. Chas. Deshler, Mr. Ira Barrows, Mr. 



