It is almost sixty years since Emil Fischer was describing on a platform such as this one some of the work which led to the basic knowledge of the structure of glucose and its relatives. Today we will be concerned with a description of the experiments which have led to a knowledge of the principal reactions by which those carbohydrate structures are created by photosynthetic organisms from carbon dioxide and water, using the energy of light. The speculations on the way in which carbohydrate was built from carbon dioxide began not long after the recognition of the basic reaction and were carried forward first by Justus von Liebig and then by Adolf von Baeyer and, finally, by Richard Wilstatter and Arthur Stoll into this century. Actually, the route by which animal organisms performed the reverse reaction, that is, the combustion of carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and water with the utilization of the energy resulting from this combination, turned out to be the first one to be successfully mapped, primarily by Otto Meyerhoi and Hans Krebs. Our own interest in the basic process of solar energy conversion by green plants began some time in the years between 1935 and 1937, during …

Current Practice -- A patrolman observes river traffic 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from a 50 foot enclosed tower located on the bank of the river. Under normal daylight conditions the opposite shore line and bluffs (2,000`) and approximately three miles both up and down the river can be seen by naked eye with close up identification obtained through use of field glasses. For night time operation a manually operated searchlight is used to sweep the river for moving or floating objects. Proposal -- To determine whether it is feasible to replace the patrolman in the river tower with a remotely controlled closed circuit television and searchlight system.