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路易斯的故事。

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

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和第二任站長。

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).