13F-NT

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 13F-NT

FORM 13F COVER PAGE

Report for the Calendar Year or Quarter Ended: March 31, 2008

Check here if Amendment [  ];          Amendment Number:______
This Amendment (Check only one.): [  ] is a restatement.
                                  [  ] adds new holdings entries.

Institutional Investment Manager Filing this Report:


Name:    State Street Research & Management Company
Address: One Financial Center
         Boston, MA 02111-2690


13F File Number: 028-04376


The institutional investment manager filing this report and the person by
whom it is signed hereby represent that the person signing the report is
authorized to submit it, that all information contained herein is true,
correct and complete, and that it is understood that all required items,
statements, schedules, and tables, are considered integral parts of this
form.

Person Signing this Report on Behalf of Reporting Manager:

Name:  Denis Molleur
Title: Attorney-In-Fact
Phone: 609-282-2382

Signature, Place and Date of Signing:



____________________________________________________________
/s/ Denis Molleur  Plainsboro, N.J. 08536     April 23, 2008
Signed pursuant to Power Of Attorney dated
January 11, 2008, included as attachment
to this Form 13F-NT filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission by State Street
Research & Management Company.

Report Type (Check only one.):

[ ]      13F HOLDINGS REPORT.

[X]      13F NOTICE.

[ ]      13F COMBINATION REPORT.


List of Other Managers Reporting for this Manager

Form 13F File Number    Name
- --------------------    --------------------------
     028-05703          BlackRock, Inc.

EX-99.16 PWR OF ATTY

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned, State Street Reseach & Management Company,
a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of
Delaware, United States (the "Company"), does hereby make,
constitute and appoint each of  Robert Connolly,Howard Surloff,
Edward Baer, James DesMarais, Bartholomew Battista,
Dan Waltcher, Vincent Tritto, Karen Clark, Denis Molleur,Daniel
Ronnen, Daniel Moonay, Nicholas Hall, Con Tzatzakis and  Junichi
Yoshioka acting severally, as its true and lawful attorneys-in-fact,
for the purpose of, from time to time, executing in its name and
on its behalf, whether the Company is acting individually or as
representative of others, any and all documents, certificates,
instruments, statements, other filings and amendments to the
foregoing (collectively, "documents") determined by such person
to be necessary or appropriate to comply with ownership or
control-person reporting requirements imposed by any United
States or non-United States governmental or regulatory authority,
including without limitation Forms 3, 4,5,13D,13F and 13G and any
amendments to any of the foregoing as may be required to be filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and delivering,
furnishing or filing any such documents with the appropriate
governmental, regulatory authority or other person, and giving
and granting to each such attorney-in-fact power and authority
to act in the premises as fully and to all intents
and purposes as the Company might or could do if personally present by
one of its authorized signatories, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.   Any such determination by an attorney-in-fact named
herein shall be conclusively evidenced by such person's execution,
delivery, furnishing or filing of the applicable document.

This power of attorney shall expressly revoke the power of attorney
dated December 15, 2006 in respect of the subject matter hereof, shall
be valid from the date hereof and shall remain in full force and
effect until either revoked in writing by the Company, or, in respect
of any attorney-in-fact named herein, until such person ceases to be
an employee of the Company or one of its affiliates.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this power of attorney
to be executed as of this 11th day of January 2008.

STATE STREET RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT COMPANY


By:_ _/s/ Robert W. Doll, Jr.
Name: Robert W. Doll, Jr.
Title: Vice Chairman