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But it sounds az though he was encouraging you scientifically,
anyway.
mead it's unusual for an undergraduate to be given
research space and a little bit of money.
KGS:
Well, he digs) He went away for one summery his family was all
on the Bast Eoast somewherepHartford, I believe.
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we—te—invertteaticl tHe was very interested in termites.
adit
wasn't terribly interested in termites, but I found out thac
no matter what I was working on, it became very {interesting
in the end. Gadhe told me to work out the nutritional
requirements of the termite, Fhere was a very popular theory
going around that wees cay by a man named Cleveland, that
lotnane?
termites could affix atmospheric smeneanents
nitroceng/and thereby create
their own source of protein.
Wellwe found out they couldn’ wy
micveesgeniens_they have
a big gut filled with microorganismepwhich digest cellulose
and reduce protefn in the end.
If you treat the termite with
oxygeng“under pressure, you can destroy all these organisms.
—hrd~T~etested~eus—aaking) did that to termites and took
careful studies on their body weighty \nd that's published
among the early publications.
{t did me a lot of goodsbecause
I got intereated in nutrition, and I used to circulate around
the people on the Berkeley campus.
.
We had
Dy. [Her bee Mclean]
Evans wha
which was on the top floor of the Life Sciences
ran avinetitute
Nery
;
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on
building,
which was uy headquarters.
How did that work out?
Kes:
Rell tt worked out that termites needed almost everything but
vitamin C, as I remember the results, to survive as a population.
dhe
tater did some work on the water control or'water
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