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[[underline]] June 8. [[/underline]] Went early to the [[underline]] Naval Research Laboratory [[/underline]] at [[underline]] Anacostia [[/underline]] with our [[underline]] Dr. Taylor, head physicist Commander Oberlin [[/underline]] came to fetch us in his Ford. Beautiful weather. [[underline]] Plant well [[/underline]] built, well situated quiet pleasant neighborhood. Buildings simple but very appropriate, no attempt at luxury or showy architecture. Buildings more of factory type. Inside everything well planned and orderly. Except for [[underline]] Oberlin [[/underline]] and one marine guard at entrance, [[underline]] the whole personal civilians, all scientists, mostly physicists [[/underline]] well [[underline]] prepared for research. Except [[/underline]] some [[underline]] very able machinists, [[/underline]] obtained from
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[[underline]] former [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] torpedo [[/strikethrough]] Naval Torpedo station. Most of the work [[strikethrough]] Everything [[/strikethrough]] at present directed to [[underline]] signalling - radio - short wave, piezo-effect, [[/underline]] and [[underline]] optical work. Only 2 chemists the remainder physicists. Prof Wheeler [[/underline]] of Yale seems to head [[underline]] physical work. [[/underline]] Everything makes good impression and I [[underline]] feel that after all my efforts to have the laboratory located here instead of New York or Annapolis, contrary to the decision of all my fellow members of the Naval Consulting board this [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is an excellent place. [[/underline]] The way the work is carried out and everything connected with it is so [[underline]] incomparably better than what I feared. [[/underline]] I feared the whole