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A LIST OF THE INDUSTRIAL FELLOWSHIPS IN OPERATION AT THE MELLON INSTITUTE ON MARCH 1, 1919

No. 190-bread

(Concluded)

.H. A. Kohman (Ph.D., University of Kansas), senior $10,000 a year. fellow.

Roy Irvin (M.S., University of Kansas).

R. J. Cross (B.A., Leland Stanford Jr. University). No. 191-fruit beverages...H. A. Noyes (M.S., Massachusetts Agricultural Col

lege).

During the institute year March 1, 1918, to March 1, 1919, there was a marked growth in both the number of industrial fellowships in operation and the amounts subscribed for their support. At the present time there are 47 industrial fellowships, and 5 additional ones have been arranged for, to begin just as soon as the necessary laboratory space can be provided. Of these 47 industrial fellowships, 35 utilize the services of one research man on each fellowship (individual fellowships), while 12 have the intensive work, in each instance, of one or more investigators under the supervision of a senior fellow (multiple fellowships). Of these two types of industrial fellowships, 9 have been founded by associations of manufacturers and these association fellowships serve in all 2,700 company members.

The following table presents the number of industrial fellowships which have been founded in the institute from March to March of each year, 1911 to 1919; the number of industrial fellows (research chemists and engineers) who have been employed thereon; and the total amounts of money contributed for their maintenance by the industrial fellowship donors (industrialists and associations of manufacturers):

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March 1, 1921. Bonus: $10,000.

$3,000 a year. March 1, 1920.

During the eight years, the institute itself expended over $330,000 in taking care of overhead expenses-salaries of members of permanent staff and office force, maintenance of building, apparatus, etc.-in connection with the operation of the industrial fellowships. Besides this amount, the building and permanent equipment of the institute, which make it the most complete and modern industrial experiment station in the country, represent an investment of about $350,000.

The administration of the Mellon Institute is now constituted as follows: Raymond F. Bacon, Sc.D., director; Edward R. Weidlein, M.A., associate director; E. Ward Tillotson, Jr., Ph.D., assistant director; William A. Hamor, M.A., assistant director; David S. Pratt, Ph.D., assistant director; Harry S. Coleman, B.S., assistant director.

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES

THE Geological Survey has recently published as its Bulletin 660 its annual volume entitled "Contributions to Economic Geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1917. Part I. Metals and Nonmetals Except Fuels." This bulletin contains 11 papers describing deposits of ores of iron, manganese, tin, antimony, lead, silver and gold in widely separated parts of the United States and deposits of greensand, clay, and strontianite. The shortage of manganese, which is used extensively in hardening steel, and the high prices resulting from its scarcity, caused the survey to examine undeveloped deposits in western Arkansas and in Shenandoah Valley, Va., the results of which are described in "Manganese Deposits of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Ark.," by H. D. Miser, and "Possibilities for Manganese Ore on Certain Un

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developed Tracts in the Shenandoah Valley, Va.," by D. F. Hewitt, G. W. Stose, F. J. Katz and H. D. Miser. The greensand deposits of the eastern United States are considered by G H. Ashley particularly with reference to their possible utilization as a source of potash, for their green color is due to their content of glauconite, a mineral that usually carries about 7 per cent. of potash, although the sands as a whole contain somewhat less of this useful alkali. An interesting paper on Strontianit Deposits near Barstow, Cal.," by Adolph Knopf, forms part of the volume. Strontianite has been successfully used in the recovery of sugar from beetsugar molasses, large quantities of the molasses being unavoidably produced in the manufacture of beet sugar. Among the mining districts described in this bulletin are the Cuyuna iron district, Minn., by E. C. Harder and A. W. Johnston; the Kings Mountain tin district, N. C. and S. C., by Arthur Keith and D. B. Sterrett; the northwestern part of the Garnet Range and the Dunklebery district, Mont., by J. T. Pardee; and the Arabia district, Nev., by Adolph Knopf.

The bulletin which consists of about 300 pages and contains a number of small maps and line illustrations, may be obtained on application to the Director, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.

SUMMER BIOLOGICAL STATIONS

THE University of Michigan will maintain its biological station for instruction and research for the eleventh session during the eight weeks from June 30 to August 22. This station is situated on the shores of Douglas Lake, near Pellston, Mich., about twenty miles northeast of Petoskey, in the famous summer playground of northern Michigan. It is, however, well isolated from the summer resorts and the resort crowds. The personnel of the teaching staff is as follows: In zoology, Professors La Rue and Welch, of the University of Michigan, Professor Frank Smith, of the University of Illinois, and Mr. Dayton Stoner, of the State University of Iowa; in botany, Professor Gates and Dr. Ehlers, of the University of

Michigan, and Professor Quick, of De Pauw University. Courses are offered in entomology, ornithology, vertebrate zoology, ecology of invertebrate animals, systematic botany, plant ecology and plant anatomy, all but the last requiring a large amount of field work. Opportunity for investigation is offered to a limited number of investigators upon payment of nominal fees. For further information address George R. La Rue, director, the Biological Station, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Raymond C. Osburn, head of the department of zoology and entomology in Ohio State University, has been appointed director of the Lake Laboratory. The 1919 session of the laboratory will be held from June 23 to August 2, a period of six weeks. The laboratory is now located at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, which is on an island in Lake Erie several miles from the mainland. It is easily reached by steamer from Cleveland, Sandusky and Detroit. Cooperation with the State Fish and Game Commission of Ohio during the 1918 session proved satisfactory to both the laboratory and the commission and the arrangement will be continued. A course on the fishes of Lake Erie will be given by Professor Osburn. Members of the staff will be Dr.

F. H. Krecker, the acting director, Ohio State University, who will offer a course in animal ecology; Professor S. R. Williams, of Miami University, who is in charge of invertebrate morphology; Professor M. E. Stickney, of Denison University, who gives work in plant ecology, and Dr. Edna Mosher, who is in charge of entomology. Surveys made last summer showed that the region was exceptionally well suited to the requirements of the laboratory. The fauna and flora are abundant and offer a wide field for research along a number of important lines. Independent workers will be cordially welcomed and given laboratory accommodations without charge.

An illustrated booklet has recently been issued descriptive of the work and environment of the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. This station was founded by alumni of the University of Iowa on Lake Okoboji in 1909.

Beginning with the summer of 1919 the work of the laboratory will be organized on a research basis, and only those prepared for independent work will be admitted. The laboratory will open June 23, continuing in session ten weeks and closing August 30. Any one interested in the work for the coming summer should address the director, Robert B. Wylie, of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDALS GENERAL PERSHING has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to a number of medical officers including the following:

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FRANCIS A. WINTER, Brigadier-General. chief surgeon of the lines of communication, American Expeditionary Forces, from June to December, 1917, he organized medical units at the base ports and in camps in France. He established large supply depots from which medical supplies were distributed to the American Expeditionary Forces, and by keen foresight and administrative ability, made these supplies at all times available for our armies.

JOSEPH A. BLAKE, Colonel. As chief consultant for the district of Paris, and commanding officer of Red Cross Hospital, No. 2, he efficiently standardized surgical procedures especially in the recent methods of treating fractures. His remarkable talent has materially reduced the suffering and loss of life among our wounded.

GEORGE W. CRILE, Colonel. By his skill, researches and discoveries, he saved the lives of many of our wounded soldiers. His tireless efforts to devise new methods of treatment to prevent infection and surgical shock revolutionized Army surgery and met with the greatest success.

WILLIAM H. WILMER, Colonel. As surgeon in charge of medical research laboratories, air service, American Expeditionary Forces, since September, 1918, he has rendered most distinguished service. His thorough knowledge of the psychology of flying officers and the expert tests applied efficiently and intelligently under his direction have done much to decrease the number of accidents at the flying schools in France and have established standards and furnished indications which will be of inestimable value in all future work to determine the qualifications of pilots and observers. The data collected by him is an evidence of his ability, his painstaking care and of

his thorough qualifications for the important work intrusted to him. The new methods, instruments

and appliances devised under his direction for testing candidates for pilots and observers have attracted the attention and been the subject of enthusiastic comment by officers of the allied services, and will be one of great importance in promoting the safety and more rapid development of aerial navigation.

JOEL E. GOLDTHWAIT, Colonel. As a member of the medical corps he has, by his unusual foresight and organizing ability, made it possible to reclaim for duty thousands of men suffering from physical defects. He has thereby materially conserved for combat service a great number of men who would have been lost to the service.

THOMAS W. SALMON, Colonel. He has, by his constant tireless and conscientious work, as well as by his unusual judgment, done much to conserve manpower for active front line work. He was the first to demonstrate that war neurosis could be treated in advanced sanitary units with greater success than in base hospitals.

SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

JOSEPH BARRELL, professor of structural geology at Yale University, died on May 4 from pneumonia and spinal meningitis, aged forty-nine years.

THE National Research Council announces the appointment of James Rowland Angell, dean of the faculties, and professor of psychology in the University of Chicago, as chairman of the council for the year commencing July 1, 1919. Dr. Angell succeeds Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has directed the affairs of the council during the war, and who resigned as chairman on April 30, to return to California. Dr. John C. Merriam, professor of paleontology in the University of California, who has been acting chairman of the council at various times, will direct its affairs until Dr. Angell assumes office in July.

Ar a meeting of the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia on May 21, the presentation of the Franklin Medals will be made to Sir James Dewar, the distinguished English chemist, and to Major-General George Owen Squier, of the

United States Army. Major Squier will give an address on "Some aspects of the Signal Corps in the World War." The address will be illustrated by still and moving pictures showing signal corps activities in France, and a limited number of signal corps communication devices will be exhibited.

DR. ALBERT CALMETTE, former director of the Institut Pasteur at Lille, now subdirector of the Institut Pasteur at Paris, has been elected an active member of the section on public hygiene and legal medicine of the Paris. Academy of Medicine.

DR. ARCHIBALD P. KNIGHT, for twenty-seven years professor of physiology in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, plans to tender his resignation, but will retain his position until a successor is appointed.

PROFESSOR DUGALD C. JACKSON, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has returned from France and has been discharged from the Army.

DR. TAMIJI KAWAMURA, of the Imperial University, Kyoto, Japan, author of a work on Japanese fresh-water biology, is spending the spring quarter in the department of zoology of the University of Illinois, studying the methods and equipment of animal ecology in the laboratory of Professor V. E. Shelford.

DR. JOSEPH E. POGUE, formerly associate professor of geology and mineralogy in Northwestern University, has terminated his duties as assisting director in technical matters, Bureau of Oil Conservation, Oil Division, U. S. Fuel Administration, and accepted the appointment of curator in the Division of Mineral Technology, U. S. National Museum, where he will carry on educational work and investigations in industrial economics with special reference to the mineral industries.

FORREST E. KEMPTON, who took his Ph.D. degree at Illinois last spring and who was employed as plant pathologist in the Porto Rico Agriculture Experiment Station during part of the past year, is now employed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Office of Cereal Investigations at the University of Illinois in connection with Barberry eradication.

J. B. NORTON, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who has been appointed agricultural explorer in the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, has left Washington on an expedition to China.

MR. M. B. LONG, of the gas laboratory of the Bureau of Standards, has resigned in order to accept a position in the research laboratory of the Western Electric Company, in New York City.

WISHING to establish a Pasteur Institute, the government of Nicaragua has asked the Mexican government to send, at its expense, a person to establish one at Managua. In compliance with this request, the Mexican authorities have intrusted Dr. G. Leal with this duty, and he will depart shortly with the necessary personnel and equipment. As a courtesy to a sister republic, the Mexican government will bear the expenses connected with the trip.

THE board of trustees of the American Medical Association has elected to the editorial staff of the Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr. George Dock, St. Louis; to the editorial staff of the American Journal of Diseases of Children, Dr. L. Emmett Holt, New York, and Dr. H. F. Helmholz, vice Dr. Frank Churchill, resigned because of removal from Chicago; on the Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry, Drs. C. L. Alsberg, Washington, D. C., Henry Kraemer, Ann Arbor, Mich., and John Howland, Baltimore, each to serve for five years; and Dr. W. W. Palmer, New York, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. J. W. Long, for a term extending to 1922.

AT the recent meeting of the American Association of Anatomists, held in Pittsburgh, the following resolution was introduced and unanimously adopted: "The American Association of Anatomists expresses to Professor J. McKeen Cattell its grateful appreciation of the ability and unfailing devotion to scientific progress shown in his editorship of SCIENCE and other scientific journals, which, while serving other broader purposes, have been so often of direct benefit to anatomists."

DR. LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY, of Cornell University, will deliver the commencement address at the Kansas State Agricultural College.

THE Silvanus Thompson Memorial Lecture of the British Röntgen Society was delivered by Professor W. M. Bayliss, at the Royal Society of Medicine on May 6.

WILLIAM H. HALE, former superintendent of public baths of the City of New York, died on May 2, at the age of seventy-nine years. Dr. Hale became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1874 and was a constant attendant at its meetings which he reported for journals and the press.

THE professor of physiology of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, Dr. H. G. Piñero, died recently at Mar del Plata.

MR. GEORGE EASTMAN, president of the Eastman Kodak Company, has provided the Dental Dispensary at Rochester, N. Y., with an endowment of $1,000,000. The object of the institution is to provide dental work for the city's school children.

THE third Tuberculosis Sanitorium of the Virginia State Board of Health is now being designed. It will be situated at Charlottesville. In conducting it the State Board of Health will affiliate with the Medical School of the University of Virginia. According to the plan the students from the school and the nurses from the University Hospital Training School will have regular periods of service in the sanatorium. The sanatorium with one hundred beds or more will open next autumn.

THE Utah Experiment Station has received a special $20,000 appropriation from the state legislature for experimental work on underground water development. Investigations

conducted by the Experiment Station and the U. S. Department of Agriculture show that vast areas of land in the southwestern part of the state contain sufficient underground water for irrigation. The experimental work to be done under this appropriation will be to determine the best type of well and equipment

for various sections of the state. One well is now being driven in Iron County and others will be started in different sections of the state

soon.

EPSILON chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon has been installed recently at the University of Missouri. This is a professional fraternity for those in geology, mining and metallurgy.

M. ALBERT SARRAUT, governor-general of Indo-China, recently announced the establishment of a scientific institute at Saigon, to study the development and utilization of the products of the soil and of the water of IndoChina. An inventory will be made of the natural resources of Indo-China, and the institute will aim to exploit them properly by means of laboratory studies, experimental research and scientific explorations.

THE Journal of the American Medical Association states that the National Association for the Study of Tuberculosis has recently granted $10,000 for an exhaustive scientific study to be made in Baltimore of the underlying causes of tuberculosis, under the direction of a committee consisting of Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore, president of the Maryland Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; Dr. Raymond Pearl, professor of biometry and vital statistics in the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. William T. Howard, Baltimore, assistant commissioner of health. The grant is intended to defray the expense of the investigation and study for a year and the start will be made as soon as the necessary force of investigators can be organized. Baltimore city makes an annual appropriation of $30,000 to the health department for its tuberculosis work, and yet little progress has been made toward the reduction of the death rate. This is because the department has been unable to make its investigation as far reaching and as effective as the officials in charge have felt that the situation demanded.

THROUGH the aid of a grant made by the Research Committee of the American Medical Association, Roy L. Moodie, assistant professor of anatomy in the University of Illinois, re

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