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WAR-TIME RESEARCH UNDER the title "The Mellon Institute in the Second Year of War", a brief summary of the activities of the Mellon Institute has been condensed from the thirty-first annual report, indicating its contribution to the war effort. During the year, March 1, 1943–March 1, 1944, a multiple industrial fellowship on chain welding and metallurgy was divided into two separate fellowships on chain welding and on powder metallurgy techniques. The iodine fellowship was revived in April, and seven other proposals for research have been accepted. The Institute's industrial research staff now consists of 201 fellows and 214 fellowship assistants. Two of these fellowships have been active for thirty years, seven for twenty-five and eight for twenty; sixty in all have concluded at least five years of research. During the year the Institute's expenditure for pure and applied research amounted to 1,652,539 dollars. A new fellowship for research in the wood-container field is concerned to improve standards and production practices for shipping containers and also to eliminate the enormous amount of wood waste in the conversion of trees to such containers of finished lumber. A fellowship has been established to improve cotton fibres by altering the chemical structure without loss of identity or workability of the fibres, and another fellowship will conduct broad basic studies of the physical and chemical properties of cotton. A new fellowship of the Copperas Co. is devoted to studies of the oxidation products of major aromatics from tars.
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The Mellon Institute. Nature 154, 371–372 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154371a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154371a0