Charles J. Olson, Counsellor in American Civilization in Winthrop House, is the sole Harvard representative among 69 winners of Guggenheim Fellowships for 1939. His project is "a critical history of the growth of Herman Melville through a study of his writing and his reading."

The fellowships with funds totalling $150,000, are annually awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to "scholars and artists who by their previous work have shown themselves to be persons of unusual ability."

A graduate of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, Olson studied at Yale in 1932-33 as an Olin Fellow in English. In 1933-34 he worked on his Melville project, one chapter of which, "Lear and Moby Dick," has been published. After two years on the faculty of Clark University in Worcester, he came to Harvard as a staff member and graduate student.

Among other fellowship winners this year is Gregory Pincus of Clark University, former Harvard faculty member, whose work with Parthenogenetic mammals, (mammals with no father) was recently publicized in Life.