The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeking to increase the scholarly usefulness of our collections and enrich the intellectual life of the Library, made a grant in 1982 to the American Philosophical Society establishing a fellowship program in bibliography, research scholarship, and staff development. The major thrust of the program is to provide fellowships for younger scholars who will prepare bibliographic studies on topics well represented in the Library's collections.

Dr. David K. van Keuren, associate of the Center for History of Chemistry of the University of Pennsylvania, was one of our two Mellon Fellows in Bibliography in 1984-85. His thorough and penetrating bibliographic description and analysis of the Library's extensive manuscript holdings in the history of anthropology and archeology provides a fascinating view of the historical development of these two interrelated disciplines and of the collecting process of this institution. Dr. van Keuren's particular scholarly interest has focused on the establishment and growth of nineteenth-century anthropology museums. One of the immediate benefits that we have gained from his fellowship was an excellent exhibition which he helped organize in the Library on "Archeology and the American Philosophical Society: 200 Years of Inquiry and Research."

We would like to acknowledge the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that made possible this work and those that will follow.