Richard,

Thank you for your quick response.

I have a further question for you: It does not sound like very much funding at all is needed for the research you are doing. Why couldn't research have continued, using private funding on the same scale as yourself? Surely if there were good science to be done, and good scientists were already involved in doing it, and the could continue to do this good science simply by investing some percentage of their own paychecks in it, why would they stop?