SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
war work of the Laboratory was of immense value, not only to the 
various war activities, but to other industries. A practical evidence of 
this value was shown by the fact that when Congress threatened the 
Laboratory grant in the general rush for post-war economy, all the 
trades which had benefited by its work, bombarded Washington with 
urgent demands that the grant should be adequate. The result was that 
the post-war grant is sufficient to keep a staff of 250 workers employed. 
INTERIOR OF STATE MUSEUM, SEATTLE. 
One of the principal activities of the Laboratory has been a most 
complete physical survey of the principal commercial timbers of the 
State. In this monumental work hundreds of thousands of measure- 
ments have been made, and a staff of thirty women graduates was kept 
busy calculating the results from the measurements of the investigators. 
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