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The Mellon Institute It was on Friday morning, February 26, of this year, that the Messrs. Richard Beatty Mellon and Andrew William Mellon turned over to Chancellor S. B. McCormick the keys of Mellon Institute, thereby placing themselves on record as exponents of the newer learning embodied in scientific research. The grandest edifice of its kind in existence was at that moment given to Pitt by two of the Nation’s most exemplary citizens. The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research and School of Specific Sciences was the outgrowth of the Department of Industrial Research, instituted at the University by Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan, now deceased. His purpose was to establish an industrial alliance, and was known as “The Industrial Fellowship System.” In this system an individual or a company contributes to the Institute a definite sum of money to pay the salary of the man or men who work on a particular problem, the solution of which is of interest to the donating company and is its exclusive property. The cherished ambition of Dr. Duncan is being most capably carried into execution by his successor. Dr. Raymond Foss Bacon. And so it proved the good offices of the Mellon Brothers to erect and equip this vast industrial research laboratory, and present it to the University of Pittsburgh as the seventh building of the proposed group. The new building was designed by Mr. J. H. Giesey. It is Doric in style, thereby conforming with the other buildings on the Campus. There are five stories, granite being used for the two lower, and buff brick for the three above. Above the doorway, raised from a bronze slab, is the following: €J This building is dedicated to the service of American Industry, which will give to all BROADER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PURPOSEFUL LIVES. The first, or main floor, contains the assembly hall, the various office rooms, and a dark room laboratory. The second, third and fourth floors each contain nineteen spacious research laboratories. There is also provision made for certain kinds of testing in the basement. Here also is the main storeroom, which is furnished with an installment of steel shelving having a total shelf surface of 3,200 square feet. There is telephonic communication with each floor of the building. Fhe library, on the first floor, contains 2,000 volumes, embracing chemistry and technology. Among the contents of the library are a file of reprints of the contributions of the fellows, a file of all patents of the fellows, and a trade catalogue guide. At present more than 1,000 catalogues of 415 firms are on file. The assembly hall occupies a space of 34 feet by 51 feet. It is provided with a movable lecture table. A lantern with cinematograph attachment is installed in the mezzanine floor of the first floor corridor. To proceed further would become more technical than this record necessitates. Suffice to say that the Mellon Institute is a masterful structure, destined to do untold wonders for the civilized world, and bound to bring honor and fame to the University, and last, but not least, to its favored donors.
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