2022-4-24

昨天一個哥們兒來，是一生專玩泥巴的，一起做過項目，在最牛逼的國家實驗室工作了叄十年，最後的工作，是Branch Chief，協調和召集全國的氣候變化研究，娶了個中國老婆，孔院外派的，喜歡吃喝玩樂，到處亂逛。朋友退休後無事可做，喜歡彈吉他。一起去海濱一家飯莊吃飯，飯莊的老闆，也很牛，福布斯富豪，榜上有名，也是娶了位中國太太。

有朋自遠方來，自然高興。可是哥們兒自從娶了新老婆，就戒了酒，只好海味伺候。

買了兩本舊書，一本是玩泥巴的，土壤條件與植物生長的第十版，1974年出版的，小拉塞爾的封山之作。一本是講實驗設計的，洛桑實驗第一版，是老豪爾的開山之作，介紹的是洛桑實驗站第一任站長（1843-1900）拉維斯（Sir John Bennet Lawes）和德國化學家李比希的學生亨利基爾伯特（Joseph Henry Gilbert）的故事。

小拉塞爾 土壤條件與植物生長 第十版，第四次印刷，1980年

豪爾 洛桑試驗 第一版，1905

Sir John Bennet Lawes (28 December 1814 – 31 August 1900)

 Joseph Henry Gilbert（1817-1901）

老拉塞爾和老豪爾，分別是拉維斯之後洛桑實驗站的第叄任（1912-1943）和第二任站長（1902-1912）。打仗親兄弟，上陣父子兵。前面的兩位是朋友，後面的兩位是師徒，都有傳承。

Sir Daniel Hall（1864-1942）

• After the deaths of Sir John Lawes in 1901 and Sir Henry Gilbert in 1902 Rothamsted was a moribund research institute with a couple of scientists and a few assistants and farmhands. Lawes had sensibly set up the Lawes Agricultural Trust to ensure that the work of the institute carried on after their deaths, and Daniel Hall was appointed Director. However the Trust funds were quite inadequate to provide any more than basic maintenance, and so Hall was obliged to go elsewhere to seek funds for the expansion that he believed was desperately required. Hall moved into the Director’s House in West Common, where Gilbert had lived. (The present house was rebuilt by Sir John Russell in the 1920s).

Sir John Russell (1872-1965)

• Born in Gloucestershire in 1872, Russell studied at London, Aberystwyth, and Manchester before starting research at Wye College in Kent under A.D. Hall. When Hall became Director of Rothamsted in 1902 he later obtained funds for Russell to work at Rothamsted in 1907. He was knighted in 1922. In 1943 Rothamsted celebrated the centenary of the first experiments, and Sir John now 70, retired and handed over to William Gammie Ogg.  The Russells retired to Oxford but lived an active life until Sir John’s death in 1965.

老拉塞爾改編 洛桑試驗 第二版，1917