Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-07-19
Interesting Facts Concerning
the Carnegie Botanical La
boratorieS and Range of
Their Research.
WILL SOON COMMENCE TO
BUILD NON MAGNETIC SHOP
To Contain Neither Steel Nor
Iron, Constructed of Wood
Copper and Bronze.

TUCSON, July 1S.-Dr. R. Wood
ward and wife of Washington city,
and c. Reeder of Baltimore, secretary
to the former, arrived in the city this
week to remain several days.
Dr. Woodward is president of the
Carnegie institute, with headquar-
tiers at Washington, visiting the va
rious laboratories, six in number, at
their several locations in the United
States, of which the Desert LabOra-
tory at Tucson is a part Of the sys-
tenn.
| In an interview with DR.. Woodward
he gave some interesting data con-
corning the system OF Carnegie lab
ioratories. The six laboratories are
| located. respectively at Tucson, Pas
| adena. Dry TCrtugas. off the southern
coast of Florida. Cold Springs Har-
| Dor. on Long Island. Boston and at
! Washington In connection with this
work there is at each laboratory a
| department Of special research. At
| Tucson Is the department of botanical
lresearch. of which DR.. d T. McDou-
| gal. is director; at Pasadena is the de-
partment of solar research; the de-
partmant of marine biology is locat-
ed at Dry ToTtugas; that of geOphys-
les is at Washington. while at Long
lIsland the department of experiment.
al evolution, and the department of
nutrition is stationed at Boston.
| In connection with this classified
ton of departmental work. there are
/ four other departments. as follows:
4 Historical research, economics and
sociology, terrestrial magnetism and
meridian astronomy. There are at
lpresent averaging between 400 and
/ 500 individuals at work in the instf-
tuition, the number varying through
| the year. while there is an eXpendi-
ture of about 100000 annually in
! the prosecution of this work of re
| search and investigation.
: During the past six years there has
been an immense amount of valuable
work accomplished through this sys-
TEN of laboratories, all of which is
worth while to note. There have
( been used and put into circulation
/ 10 volumes relative to the work and
investigation of the different institu-
tons, aggregating $4,000 pages of re
search, while there are something
! like 30 volumes now in the press and
many more in the building. The
books concerning these researches
used at Tucson are placed in tire Ari-
zona University library for the ben
eft of the students. Besides these
valuable volumes there are issued an
nually several hundred publications
in current Journals in connection with
this work. To accomplish this labor
approximately 1000 individuals have
been employed.
At Washington there is now being
constructed 2 handsome, commodi Nis
structure known as the Administra-
ton Building, Carnegie InstltH'ICn, IF
Washington, which will cost SHGOGUO.
This is a building compile i'm ev-
cry respect for this class of work,
having an advantage for carrying on
the promotion of scientific research
in the departments as designated.
In addition to tiis, they are Just
about to begin TO build a ship, which
will be called a non-magnetic ship,
as ii will be constructed of wood,
copper and bronze; it will contain no
steel nor iron This was brought
about and encouraged through the
success of the Galilee, which has run
on the Pacific ocean during the past
three years
From here DR.. Woodward. wife and
secretary will go to the laboratory at
Pasadena, and will visit Luther Bur
bank, a man who himself has done
marvellous work in the botanical field.
From there they will go to the Leland
Stanford University. where they Will
be the guests OF Professor FIuegel.
At this point they are labOring to get
out a dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon
language. From there they will jour
lney to visit the Lick observatory at
Mt. Hamilton.
DR.. Woodward expressed himself
greatly pleased with this city in gen
eral; finds the temperature less op-
pressive than in the east, and says
there is more prospective value in
this southwest country, and there will
be more of an enlarged benefit de-
rived from the promotion and prose
cution Of these researches than is or
dinaTily realized at first. He de-
clares it a mistaken idea that this
country should ever be considered
good-for-nothing. He considers the
Desert Laboratory has a magnificent
building well equipped and very de-
sirabie location. THE faculty are
Earnest, conscientious and tireless
working professors.
Tuesday and Wednesday Woodward
and party were guests Of DR. and Mrs.
| d. T. MacDougaIl They made their
departure last night for southern Cal
| ifornia.