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  ANNUAL 
  KEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  19 
  2 
  9 
  

  

  ORGANIZATION 
  

  

  Persorwiel. 
  — 
  The 
  present 
  personnel 
  is 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Research 
  associate, 
  Dr. 
  F. 
  S. 
  Braekett. 
  

  

  Consulting 
  plant 
  physiologist. 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  S. 
  Johnston. 
  

  

  Research 
  assistant, 
  L. 
  B. 
  Clark. 
  

  

  Stenographer 
  and 
  laboratory 
  assistant, 
  Miss 
  V. 
  P. 
  Stanley. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  F. 
  S. 
  Braekett 
  took 
  charge 
  of 
  this 
  work 
  under 
  Doctor 
  Abbot's 
  

   direction 
  May 
  1, 
  his 
  experience 
  being 
  chiefly 
  physical 
  and, 
  more 
  par- 
  

   ticularly, 
  spectroscopic. 
  Through 
  the 
  cordial 
  cooperation 
  of 
  the 
  agri- 
  

   cultural 
  experiment 
  station 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Maryland, 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  S. 
  

   Johnston 
  is 
  directing 
  the 
  biological 
  aspects 
  of 
  the 
  investigation. 
  In 
  

   all 
  this 
  work 
  the 
  technical 
  aspects 
  involved 
  in 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  new 
  

   equipment 
  will 
  play 
  a 
  very 
  important 
  part. 
  For 
  this 
  work 
  the 
  serv- 
  

   ices 
  of 
  Mr. 
  L. 
  B. 
  Clark 
  have 
  been 
  secured, 
  whose 
  varied 
  experience 
  

   peculiarly 
  fits 
  him 
  for 
  such 
  an 
  undertaking. 
  

  

  Cooperation. 
  — 
  During 
  some 
  months 
  previous 
  to 
  the 
  initiation 
  of 
  

   this 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian, 
  Doctor 
  Braekett 
  directed 
  the 
  develop- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  several 
  lines 
  of 
  research 
  in 
  the 
  Fixed 
  Nitrogen 
  Laboratory 
  

   closely 
  related 
  to 
  those 
  to 
  be 
  undertaken 
  in 
  this 
  division. 
  This 
  work 
  

   is 
  being 
  carried 
  on 
  by 
  that 
  laboratory 
  now, 
  in 
  very 
  close 
  cooperation 
  

   with 
  the 
  Smithsonian. 
  

  

  Kespectfully 
  submitted. 
  

  

  F. 
  S. 
  Brackett, 
  ■ 
  

   Research 
  Associate 
  in 
  Charge. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  C. 
  G. 
  Abbot, 
  

  

  Secretary^ 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution. 
  

  

  