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be authorized. While the very hniited appropriation for the regular 

 staff could be devoted to war time work, the amount was fixed. Rec- 

 ognition of the situation by the Forest Service resulted in transferring 

 small amounts of money created by adjustment of work in other fields 

 and also in the sending of experienced personnel to assist in the en- 

 larged program. Despite these adjustments, but little progress could 

 have been made without the allotment of funds from the various co- 

 operating bureaus in the Army and Navy departments. From these 

 soiu'ces came the bidk of the funds used for carrying on the important 

 war program. Additional space, as needed, was made available 

 through the patriotic cooperation of the University of Wisconsin, a 

 number of whose buildings, in whole or part, were vacated and turned 

 over to the laboratory during the period of the war. 



PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENTS AT THE LABOUATOPY— JULY lOlT TO JULY 1020 



Of the many difficulties encountered in carrying on the necessary 

 work, the matter of personnel was ever present. Tlie dearth of prop- 

 erly trained men who could be secured at the comparatively low sal- 

 aries which the la])oratory was able to pay was always most acute, and 

 was largely responsible for many irksome delays in expanding the 

 organization. This expansion Avent forward, however, at a reasonable 



