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Six fish-cookery lectures and demonstrations also were given in 
Washington, D. C., to groups of women in cooperation with the 
Consumers’ Council of Washington, D. C., and one to a group of 
school lunchroom managers in Baltimore, Md. 
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES AND STUDENT ASSISTANTS 
Because of the relatively small size of the Bureau’s technological 
staff and the rather broad field of research it must cover, it is only 
possible to undertake those problems which are of a fundamental 
nature and which promise to be of the greatest value to the largest 
number of persons (whose livelihood depends in whole or in part on 
the fisheries), and which are possible with the funds and personnel 
available. For this reason, the Division cannot, with present facilities, 
attack problems of special or restricted interest affecting certain 
products, processes, methods, or industries. However, the Bureau 
has available, by congressional authorization and under an arrange- 
ment similar to that of other scientific Government bureaus, facilities 
for research associates and student assistants in its laboratories. 
The salaries and expenses of these employees are paid by the firms 
or groups who are interested in the problems on which they are work- 
ing and the investigations are carried out under the supervision of 
the Bureau’s technologists in its laboratories and under its control. 
Thus the Bureau provides these industries and groups with laboratory, 
consulting, and library facilities which, in most instances, cannot be 
obtained elsewhere. 
Tithin the limits of its facilities, the Bureau also has opened its 
technological laboratories to research students who are pursuing 
courses in universities and who are selecting investigational problems 
in the fisheries as their major study. This may prove of special 
benefit to the industry as it brings its problems to the attention of a 
large group of research workers ‘who in turn may spread interest to 
applied fishery research. 
The following research associates and student assistants carried 
on investigations under the supervision of .our technological staff 
during the past year: 
In the College Park laboratory, W. J. Hart, research associate, em- 
ployed by the ‘Musher Foundation, Inc., New York City, working on 
the problem of rancidity in fatty fish; George Tarrant, R. H. Flowers, 
C. E. Swift, Harold E. Crowther, and Joseph F. Puncochar (p art 
time), research associates, employed by the Aquacide Co., EES 
ton, D. C., working on ‘problems in the chemical preservation of 
fishery byproducts; William B. Lanham, Jr., Hillman C. Harris, and 
Willis H. Baldwin, part-time graduate student assistants, employed 
by the Bureau of Fisheries and working on problems in the chemistry 
and metabolism of fish proteins; James W. McCurley, Roscoe Dwig- 
gins, Robert D. Nichols, G. E. Linthicum, Amiel Kirshbaum, Ray- 
mond N. Miskimon, George W..,Woxrry Ei. if Hemsley, C. R. "Lang- 
maid, George W. Knepley, Walter Schauffele, Wade Wood, Ned 
Oakley, Abraham Scop, A. N. Chumbris, K. Krulevitz, Edward J. 
Kennedy, John Webster, and T. N. Scharf, studert assistants pro- 
vided by the National Youth Administration through the University 
of Maryland. 
In the Seattle technological laboratory, Lyle Anderson and Leslie 
Lowen, research associates ; employed by the Musher Foundation, Inc., 
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