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THE report of the Ontario Research Foundation for 1937 (Sessional Paper, No. 52. Pp. 35. Toronto: King's Printer) refers to an increase in the amount of research work carried out in contact and in co-operation with industrial companies, the revenue received for services rendered to industry itself having increased by thirty per cent. The Textiles Department has during the year developed a launderometer for determining the fastness of dyed goods to washing, a fadeometer for determining the fastness of coloured fabrics to light, a crock-meter for determining fastness of dyes to rubbing, and an autographic tensile strength and elongation tester for determining the strength, extensibility and yarn slippage of materials. The Engineering and Metallurgy Department continued its investigation on summer comfort standards for the Toronto district and also its study of the resistance to abrasion of iron and steel balls under the conditions existing in the grinding mills of mines. In the Department of Chemistry, the development of a laboratory for the study of problems relating to paper, printing and adhesives has been completed. Work on the transfer of pigments from aqueous pastes to an oily medium by methods which are commercially feasible has reached its final stages and in addition to the mechanical problem an emulsifying agent is required which is not detrimental to the final product. The equipment and organization of a laboratory for the study of plastics has been commenced, and a new laboratory has also been inaugurated to study problems associated with the manufacture of waxed paper and similar products. The Department of Biochemistry has continued its investigations on a combined system of tannage for sole and belting leather and on problems connected with the Matzka process for the preparation of fruit juices which are stable for prolonged periods and retain their original flavour and content of vitamins. Investigations carried out by the Department of Agriculture have related to mineral deficiencies of land types and the relation between soil, climate and cultivation of the principal crops in Ontario, while the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology has continued its studies of bovine mastitis and the parasites of sheep.
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The Ontario Research Foundation. Nature 142, 247–248 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142247c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142247c0