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THE eighteenth annual report of the National Research Council, Dominion of Canada, covers the activities of the Council in 1934-35. During the year, the Associate Committees on Aeronautical Research and on Trail Smelter Smoke were re-organized and three important conferences were held, one on problems of the honey industry, another to formulate a programme of cold-storage investigations, and the third to investigate the potato situation and the utilization of a surplus. The work at the laboratory for laundry research conducted by the Council since 1930 has now led to the formation of a Canadian Research Institute of Launderers and Cleaners. Reports from the various laboratory divisions summarizing work in progress refer to investigations on chemical weed killers, including a review of the literature, and on the biochemistry of rust resistance. The Division of Chemistry has devoted a considerable amount of attention to problems relating to carbon black, leather, paints and rubber. It has developed a method for plucking poultry which has received many favourable notices. A special wax has been prepared which can be used for removing the pen-feathers, and by its use poulterers can prepare birds for market which are cleanly plucked and attractive. Much work has been done on the conservation of Alberta's natural resources, while in the Fire Hazard Testing Laboratory of the Division of Physics and Engineering, the testing and listing of domestic oil burners has been studied and the drafting of safety codes has received attention. A joint Associate Committee with the Dominion Department of Agriculture has investigated field crop diseases while another such committee is concerned with grain research including the frost injury of wheat, methods of determining moisture in grain and the effect of carbon tetrachloride on the quality of damp wheat in storage. Other associate committees are concerned with the storage and transport of food, weed problems, wool, parasitology and engineering standards.
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National Research Council of Canada. Nature 138, 236–237 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138236c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138236c0