Wyoming Natural Resources Research Institute in Fifth Year of Operation

Abstract

THE Natural Resources Research Institute became a part of the University of Wyoming in 1943 after the state legislature voted a special appropriation car-marked for its establishment. In November of that year the institute started operations with a part-time chemist and a laboratory and office room in Science Hall on the university campus. From this modest start the institute has grown to a staff of nine full-time persons and from six to eight part-time students and assistants. The move of the Bureau of Mines Petroleum and Oil Shale, Laboratory to its new building on the university, campus made available to the NRRI the petroleum building which the Bureau of Mines formerly occupied. This building, which housed a staff of 15 people for the Bureau of Mines, has made an ideal office and laboratory for the Natural Resources Research Institute. In addition, an auxiliary brick structure has just been completed for the coal work of the ...