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  • July 18-20 In Edinburgh on a general wind up of our stay. Joyce [Cowan] in London with the [Peter] Fords. July 20 Down to London with Ann [Cowan] + Garry [Cowan]. July 21. Left London for Southampton on the 11:30 from Waverly [Waverley]; lunched on the train + arrived at 1:20. Went out to the University of Southampton to see Professor [John] Raymont, of the dept [department] of zoology. They have an excellent new building, red brick, well designed + equipped. They spent more on the equipment than on the structure. A small lab [laboratory] houses the honours students. about 6 of them; Another is devoted to Physiology + a larger one to the 1st and 2nd years of zoology. Raymont himself is working on the nutrition + respiration of plankton both phyto [phytoplankton] + zoo [zooplankton] + has a physical set up to do very nice work. At the moment he is just beginning a controlled study of the use of chemical fertilizers by plankton. In a series of tanks he plans to add the experimental substances, watch the results + achieve quantitative expulsion by straining out all the organisms + analyzing them for comparison with the quantities of materials added. He also has some experiments going to investigate the variations in annual.
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