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Much of the work on these latter groups is completed, but parts of the
collections are not yet identified. They are being worked on during the
spare time of the persons named.
Financially, I have obligated the sum of $4,571 for the completion of
the work now in progress. Our budget actually contains $5,800 for these
services to the period 30 June 1959. It is virtually certain that only a
small fraction of this sum will actually be paid prior to that date.
The method by which we secure systematists for this job is to estimate
the number of months or full-time work which would be required to complete
the work, then send them to =iRL for collecting during which time they
receive full-time pay at the modest rate of $6,000 per year.
Once they
return to their own institutions they spend as much time as possible on the
collection and I pay them a prorated amount based on hours worked. We have
been exceedingly fortunate in securing the services of outstanding veovle,
and our named collections at EMBL are extremely useful. I have had many
occasions to use them myself, so I speak from first-hand acquaintance.
In some cases we could not get the systematists to go to EMAL themselves
(either females or men without sufficient time to do so), so collections of
these groups were made under my supervision by graduate assistants sent there
during summers. No additional funds need to be set up under this aspect of
the laboratory's development, as the most important groups are now either
completed or will be with funds available.
Prospective 1959 Investigators at EMBL
1. Dr. Wilson Stone and two assistants will go to SMBL from mid-July to
mid-August to continue their studies on genetic changes induced in fruit flies
in the test area.
2.
Dr. Max Doty and Mr. M. Oguri, working on AEC project AT(04-3)-15,
3.
Dr. A. H. Banner and Dr. P. Helfrich, working on AC project
"Algal Productivity of the Tropical Pacific as Determined by Isotope Tracer
Techniques." ir, Oguri plans to spend from 15 January to 15 February 1959,
at HifBL, and several additional periods as yet undetermined,
AT(O4~3)-235, "An Investigation of the Possible Effects of Ingestion of Radioactive Fish and the Nature and Biology of Toxins Found in Certain Fishes."
Dr. Helfrich is now at EMBL collecting fish reputed to be poisonous and others
for controls. He will also collect at Majuro Atoll using logistic supoort
provided through the AMC Branch Manager, Several such trips will be made
during the year, depending upon the needs of the program,
These two investigators and Dr. Paul Schever will also utilize EMBL
facilities in pursuance of their research sponsored by the National Institutes
of Health, project RG-5714, "The Nature and Biology of Toxinsfrom Certain
Fishes,"
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