Spaulding property

A 1931 map indicates that 4.67 acres of the Spaulding property (part of the original 640 leased acres for the site) was sold to John Small III (Washingtonian Collection, D.C. Library). This was squares 1507 and 1509. Plan 30, dated 1937, indicates that this property (now listed as 4.69 acres) was sold to Olive M. Dwight. This property contained the three shell pits. A 1936 map of the construction development in the AUES area confirms that construction, which otherwise developed street by street, strangely bypassed these shell pits. Except for a steep terrain feature known as East Creek, all of the roads in this subdivision are designed to allow the lots to back up to each other. Only the area of POIs 20-23 has a parcel that is landlocked. 

Also in 1975, Fajer, Brune, Davis, Forman and Spaulding investigated the possible involvement of bacteriopheophytin in bacterial photosynthesis by examining the spectral properties of electrochemi-cally reduced bacteriopheophytin (BO) in solution. BO molecules in CH2CI2 undergo a reversible, one-electron reduction with a halfwave potential (Ey,) of-0.54 V V5. the normal hydrogen electrode. From the experimentally measured reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectrum of BO, combined with the known... 

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