lege). D. F. Zimmers (B.S., University of F. W. Sperr, Jr. (B.A., Ohio State Uni- $5,640 a year for 1 year. Marc Darrin (M.S., University of Wash- A. A. Kohr (B.S., Ohio State Univer- R. J. Montgomery (Cer. Eng., Ohio H. D. Clayton (B.A., Ohio State Uni- January 1, 1918. $2,300 a year for 1 year. C. W. Trigg (B.S., University of Pitts- $1,500 a year for 1 year. G. F. Gray (M.E. in E.E., Ohio State Rudolph McDermet (E.E., University B. T. Brooks (Ph.D., University of Göt- Harry Essex (Ph.D., University of Göt- I. W. Humphrey (M.S., University of D. F. Smith (M.S., University of Wis- J. V. Thompson (A.B., Cornell Univer- C. E. Ruby (B.S., University of Ken- F. F. Rupert (Ph.D., Massachusetts In- $3,500 a year for 1 year. $2,000 a year for 1 year. $10,000 a year for 1 year. $2,100 a year for 1 year. $1,500 a year for 1 year. C. E. Howson (B.S., Ohio State Uni- $2,500 a year for 1 year. Pittsburgh). Heidelberg). No. 103. By-products recovery. Walther Riddle (Ph.D., University of $3,000 a year for 1 year. No. 104. Copper No. 105. Illumination January 1, 1918. November 1, 1917. G. A. Bragg (B.S., University of Kan- $6,500 a year for 1 year. J. D. Malcolmson (B.S., University of G. O. Curme, Jr. (Ph.D., University of G. D. Bagley (M.S. in E.E., University H. R. Curme (B.S., Northwestern Uni- C. N. Iry (B.S., Purdue University). $8,000 a year for 1 year. K-3. Salt K-1. Laundering. K-2. Alfalfa. rising Bread. K-4. Casein. K-5. Oil. K-6. Enamel. K-7. Glass. K-8. Cement. K-9. Varnish. K-10. Borax. K-11. Adrenaline. K-12. Vegetable Ivory. K-13. Oil. K-14. Gilsonite. K-15. Fats. K-16. Leather. K-17. Copper. K-18. Copper (continuation of K-17). University of Pittsburgh, 1911 to date 12. 15. 1. Bread. 2. Smoke. 3. Glass. 4. Bread. 5. Glue. 6. Soap. 7. Fruit Juice. 8. Composition Flooring. 9. Oil. 10. Gas. 11. Cement. Foods. 13. Fatty Oils. 14. Electricity. Coated Steel. 16. Copper (continuation of K18). 17. Desert Plant. 18. Bread (continuation of 4). 19. Aluminum. 20. Glue (continuation of 5). 21. Soap (continuation of 6). 22. Glass. 23. Electricity (continuation of 14). 24. Copper (continuation of 16). 25. Yeast. 26. Fats (continuation of K-15). 27. Leather Waste (continuation of K-16). 28. Fertilizer. 29. Copper (continuation of 24). 30. Radiators. 31. Machinery. 32. Glass. 33. Copper (continuation of 29). 34. Fatty Oils (continuation of 13). 35. Copper (continuation of 33). 36. Copper. 37. 3 The system of industrial research founded by Bonus: $5,000. October 16, 1917. $3,000 a year for 1 year. January 1, 1918. $2,300 a year for 1 year. November 1, 1917. $3,000 a year for 1 year. December 1, 1917. $1,800 a year for 1 year. January 18, 1918. $2,500 a year for 1 year. February 15, 1918. $1,800 a year for 1 year. Bonus: $2,000. February 1, 1918. Illumination. 38. Dental Products. 39. Compound Fats. 40. Stone. 41. Copper (continuation of 35). 42. Bottle Glass. 43. Laundering. 44. Land Development. 45. Copper (continuation of 35). 46. Organic Synthesis. 47. Soda. 48. Bread (continuation of 18). 49. Candy. 50. Paints. 51. Yeast (continuation of 25). 52. Copper (continuation of 36). Subject List of Industrial Fellowships from the Inauguration of the System to the Present Time (continued) 53. Copper (continuation of 45). 54. Dental Products (continuation of 38). 55. Pharmaceutical Products. 56. Soap (continuation of 21). 57. Glue (continuation of 20). 58. Machinery (continuation of 31). 59. Milling. 60. Collars. 61. Inorganic Synthetic Products. 62. Gas. 63. Canning. 64. Oil (continuation of 9). 65. Compound Fats (continuation of 39). 66. Glyceryl Phosphates. 67. Bottle Glass (continuation of 42). 68. Glass (continuation of 22). 69. Linoleum. 70. Gum. 71. Stoves. 72. Copper (continuation of 53). 73. Illumination (continuation of 37). 74. Dental Products (continuation of 54). 75. Flavoring Materials. 76. Glue and Soap (continuation of 56 and 57). 77. Food Container. 78. Iron Ore. 79. Sand. 80. Laundering (continuation of 43). 81. Varnish. 82. Medicinal Products. 83. Cannel Coal. 84. Copper (continuation 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. Glyceryl Phosphates (continuation of 66). 100. Fiber. 101. Milling (continuation of 59). 102. Fruit Juice. 103. By-products Recovery. 104. Copper (continuation of 85). 105. Illumination (continuation of 73). 106. Silverware. 107. Cottonseed. 108. Insecticides. 109. Refractories 113. (Glass). 110. Toilet Articles. 111. Distillation. 112. Laundering (continuation of 80). Flavoring (continuation of 75). 114. Enameling. 115. Bread (continuation of 48). The Mellon Institute is now active in promoting the progress of science and in stimulating further inquiry by making available to the workers in pure and applied science complete and detailed reports of researches conducted under its auspices; it maintains an attitude of welcome towards prospective industrial research organization and has established 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 4 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. Frankl. Inst., November, 1914, 629-32. Eighteen journal articles were published 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 Kansas, Washington, Toronto and Akron, the Georgia School of Technology and the University of Finland (Helsingfors, Finland). The establishment of industrial fellowships in accordance with the practical system in operation at the Mellon Institute, is being considered by Massachusetts Agricultural College, Harvard University, Washington State College, McGill 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 reducing 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 outside of plant laboratories. This has resulted in the extension of the practise of referring certain of the problems of industry to university laboratories for study. However, this cooperative relation must be stabilized and promoted by the demonstration of its advantages by the institutional laboratories involved. About seventy per cent. of the problems assigned to the Mellon Institute for study during 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 universities are needed for the execution of real attainment in the technical world with its diffi culties, wastes and unexplored lines of manufacturing. The administration of the Mellon Institute is now constituted as follows: Raymond F. Bacon, Ph.D., Director; Edward R. Weidlein, M.A., Associate Director; Samuel R. Scholes, Ph.D., Assistant Director; E. Ward Tillotson, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Director; John J. O'Connor, Jr., M.A., Assistant Director; Martin A. Rosanoff, Sc.D., Head of the Department of Research in Pure Chemistry. R. F. BACON PITTSBURGH, PA., March 1, 1917 SCIENTIFIC EVENTS GRANTS FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND WHEN the establishment of a separate department of scientific and industrial research was announced in December last, Lord Crewe 7 For detailed presentments of the present-day technochemical 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. stated that the chancellor of the exchequer was prepared to advise the government to devote a sufficient sum to cover operations during the next five years on a scale which would provide four, or perhaps five, times as much for cooperative industrial research as had been spent for the whole purposes of research hitherto. According to Nature the civil service estimates just issued include the sum of £1,038,050 to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, being a net increase of £998,050 upon last year's amount. Grants for investigations carried out by learned and scientific societies, etc., are estimated at £24,000, and grants to students and other persons engaged in research at £6,000. These grants will be distributed by a committee of the Privy Council, on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, to promote the development of scientific and industrial research in the United Kingdom, and will be subject to such conditions as the committee may think necessary. The £1,000,000 grant in aid of industrial research will be paid to the account of the Imperial Trust for the encouragement of scientific and industrial research. The expenditure of the trust will be audited by the comptroller and auditor-general, but any balance remaining on the account will not be surrendered at the close of the financial year. Grants will be made by the directions of the committee of the Privy Council over an agreed period to approved trade associations for research, to supplement the funds of the associations, and payments in respect of such grants will not be liable to surrender by the grantees at the end of the financial year. It is understood from Lord Crewe's remarks on December 1 that for the next five years or so about £200,000 a year would be available for scientific and industrial research, so that apparently the grant of £1,000,000 is the sum which is to be drawn upon for this purpose. The amount estimated for salaries, wages and allowances in the new department is £7,250, which includes £1,500 for the secretary and £850 for the assistant secretary. Traveling and incidental expenses are estimated to amount to £800. THE GENERAL MEDICAL BOARD OF THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE A GENERAL medical board of the Council of National Defense was organized on April 17 at a meeting attended by leading physicians from all parts of the country. The board is to have general supervision of the mobilization of the nation's medical resources during the war. Dr. Franklin Martin, of Chicago, will be chairman of the board, which will also include the leading members of the executive committee of the board, announced a short time ago. The list follows: Dr. Franklin Martin, chairman. Surgeon General William C. Braisted, United States Surgeon General Rupert Blue, United States Public Health Service. Colonel Jefferson R. Kean, director of military relief, American Red Cross. Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathology, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. William J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn. Dr. Edward Martin, professor of surgery, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the medical school of the University of Michigan. Dr. George H. Simmons, editor, Journal of American Medical Association, Chicago. Dr. Richard P. Strong, professor of tropical medicine, Harvard University. Dr. Joseph M. Flint, professor of surgery, Yale University. Dr. Stuart McGuire, professor of surgery, University of Virginia. Dr. John Young Brown, professor of surgery, University of St. Louis. Dr. Charles H. Mayo, Rochester, Minn. Dr. Thomas W. Huntington, professor of surgery, University of California. Dr. Hubert A. Royster, secretary of Southern Surgical Association. Dr. Charles H. Peck, professor of surgery, Columbia University. Dr. Winford Smith, superintendent, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Frederic A. Besley, professor of surgery, Northwestern University. Dr. George W. Crile, professor of surgery, Western Reserve University. Earl Phelps, sanitary engineer, Washington, D. C. Dr. John M. Finney, professor of clinical surgery, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Edward P. Davis, professor of obstetrics, Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Edward C. Kirk, dean of dental department, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. W. C. Woodward, commissioner of Public Health, Washington, D. C. Dr. Simon Flexner, director, Rockefeller Institute, New York City. Dr. Theodore Janeway, professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, New York Commissioner of Public Health. Dr. George Brewer, professor of surgery, Columbia University. Dr. George Walker, Johns Hopkins University. SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS AT the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington on April 18, the following members were elected: Edward Kasner, mathematics; Walter S. Adams, astronomy; Theodore Lyman, Walter C. Sabine, S. W. Stratton, physics; W. R. Whitney, chemistry; J. J. Carty, electrical engineering; W. F. Durand, marine engineering; H. M. Howe, metallurgy; E. O. Ulrich, geology; Robert Ridgway, ornithology; Harvey Cushing, William S. Halsted, surgery; L. H. Bailey, botany; Edward L. Thorndike, psychology. AT the annual dinner of the National Academy of Sciences on the evening of April 17, the Henry Draper gold medal was presented to Professor A. A. Michelson, of the University of Chicago, and the public welfare medal to Dr. S. W. Stratton, director of the Bureau of Standards. THE seventh annual award of the Willard Gibbs Medal, founded by William A. Converse of Chicago, will be made to Dr. Edward W. Morley. Dr. Morley was elected by a jury of twelve, including some of our most eminent chemists in the United States. He will talk upon his early work in connection with hydrogen and oxygen, on Friday evening, May 18, at Hotel Sherman, Chicago, at which meeting the medal will be awarded to him. Previous recipients of this medal have been: W. R. Whitney, A. A. Noyes, T. W. Richards, Ira Remsen, L. H. Baekeland and Svante Arrhenius. PROFESSOR M. C. WHITAKER, head of the department of chemical engineering, Columbia University, was elected vice-president of the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., at the meeting of their board, on April 19. In this capacity, Mr. Whitaker will serve as chairman of the manufacturing committee in charge of plants and operations, chairman of the research committee in charge of the new laboratories at Baltimore, and as a member of the sales committee of the company. DR. H. N. McCoy, who has been connected with the department of chemistry of the University of Chicago since 1901 and professor since 1911, has tendered his resignation in order to be free to devote more time to his important technical interests. His process of extracting radium from carnotite is being used by the Carnotite Production Company of Chicago in which he is a director. He is also interested in the production of thorium and related products and is a director of the Lindsay Light Company of Chicago, which has probably the largest thorium production in the country. ANOUNCEMENT is made by the Forest Service of the appointment of Carlile P. Winslow as director of the Forest Products Laboratory, at Madison, Wisconsin, to succeed Howard F. Weiss, whose resignation took place on April 1. DOROTHY W. BLOCK has been awarded the Maria Mitchell memorial scholarship of $500, to be used in research work at the Harvard observatory during the year 1917-18. For the past two years Miss Block has been laboratory assistant in the department of astronomy at Hunter College. JAMES F. COUCH was elected president of the recently organized Des Moines Chemical Society at the regular meeting on April 9. A GRADUATE medical course will be conducted at the new St. Luke's Hospital, Spokane, during the summer. Among those who have accepted invitations to lecture, according to the Journal of the American Med |