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Although I had studied the Hari respiration calorimeter several times
before, I had never realized there were so few thermo-junction points
between the two chambers and I could not understand why the chamber was
painted black on the inside. Fearing that this would contribute toward
insulation rather than free loss of heat I asked Hari, and he explained
it as being an attempt to direct the heat along the metal so as to have
the thermo-junction points all as equally affected by the heat as possible.
The light was very poor as usual and my attempts to photograph
things were most unsuccessful. (See figures /and ' ^)
I had opportunity to talk with these two remarkable men a great deal.
The conditions under which they work are very severe. I have the impression
that the situation is a little better than it was four years ago, but the
fact that several times an assistant brought in a bottle of urine that
Hari had to analyze immediately or place one side for analysis later showed
that he is still under the necessity of supplementing a very poor university
salary by such analyses as he can make. On the other hand, one was lost
in admiration of the fact that these men could do work at all under the
conditions under which they had to work. As four years ago, I found
Aszodi at the laboratory at early hours in the morning carrying out
research and going home for private practice and consultation hours and
then back again to do his reading and writing at night. There was one
point brought to my attention when ffitri was talking, and that was that
Hari ha? had to do all of the writing. I can understand that would be
the case with many of his younger assistants, but I directly got the
impression that in the case of Aszo'di the writing was done by Ha'ri. If
this is the case it is going to make it very difficult for Aszddi to carry on.
After conferring with Hdri and Aszo'di I decided it was not worth
while to visit the Agricultural Institute presided over by Weiser.