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36/ [[vertical note in red in left margin]] [[red underline]] Silicosis [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in red in left margin]] [[red underline]]  Mr. Potter also tells me about drastic [[/red underline]] laws have been introduced against the use of [[red underline]] asbestos, [[/red underline]] which seems to act the same as what causes [[red underline]] Silicosis [[/red underline]], to workers in tunneling thru hard rock in U.S. or similar occupations where stone or mineral dust causes defective lungs thru cumulative deterioratoin of the lung tissues.  
[[underlined]] July 1 [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Calder [[/red underline]] joined me here [[strikethrough]] He wantes [[/strikethrough]] for luncheon.  [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Frank Smith [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] Had come expressly from Liverpool to take me to the visit of the National Physical [[red underline]] Laboratories at Teddington. [[/red underline]]  On the last moment he found out thru the head of the institution [[red underline]] Sir Frank Smith [[/red underline]] that the ruler of the Institution [[red underline]] expressly forbid visitors of other nationalities than those of the British Empire.  [[/red underline]] [[note in left margin in red]] !! [[/note in left margin in red]] Smith told that the only recourse for granting permission was [[red underline]] Ramsay MacDonald [[/red underline]]. So he went to [[red underline]] MacDonald [[/red underline]], who had met me and to whom he explained who I am and [[red underline]] MacDonald immediately [[/red underline]] ordered [[end page]]
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permission for my visit.  We drove to [[red underline]] Teddington [[/red underline]] in a taxi-cab.  The institution is situated in pleasant surroundings near the Thames River.  Its whole organization and aims are [[red underline]] similar to our Bureau of Standards [[/red underline]] in Washington and includes besides laboratories and experimental stations for physics, other buildings for chemistry, electricity, meteorology etc etc
[[vertical note in left margin in red]] National Physical laboratories at Teddington [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] 
All these buildings make [[strikethrough]] supe [[/strikethrough]]  [[red underline]] separate units [[/red underline]], well planned and of simple but purposeful construction separate by neat walks and a multitude of well kept little garden.  This makes the ensemble look very cheerful. - Met many British chemists friends there and [[strikethrough]] other physician [[/strikethrough]] physicists engineers, or electricians who seemed to know about my work.  A very pleasant day.
At the evening went alone for supper to the famous [[red underline]] "Cafe [[/red underline]] [[/double red underline]] Royal", [[/double red underline]] now situated in entirely new building but seems just as much patronized 

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