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available. For this reason, the Division cannot, with present facili- 

 ties, 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 working 

 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, con- 

 sulting, and library facilities which, in most instances, cannot be 

 obtained elsewhere. 



Within 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. The details of these problems have been described in 

 the preceding pages. 



In the Seattle technological laboratory, Lyle Anderson, research 

 associate employed by the Musher Foundation, Inc., New York City, 

 working on the problem of rancidity in fish livers, oils, and meals; 

 Myron Thurman and Richard Crosby, student assistants, provided by 

 the National Youth Administration, through the University of 

 Washington. 



In the College Park laboratory, W. J. Hart, research associate, 

 employed by the Musher Foundation, Inc., New York City, working 

 on the problem of rancidity in fatty fish; George Tarrant, Harold E, 

 Crowther, and Joseph F. Puncochar, research associates, employed 

 by L. T. Hopkinson, Washington, 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 prob- 

 lems in the chemistry and metabolism of fish proteins; James W. Mc- 

 Curley, Roscoe Dwiggins, Robert D. Nichols, G. E. Linthicum, Amiel 

 Kirshbaum, Raymond N. Miskimon, George W. Dorr, H. H. Hemsley, 

 C. R. Langmaid, George W. Knepley, Walter Schauftele, Wade W^ood, 

 Ned Oakley, Abraham Scop, A. N. Chumbris, K. Krulevitz, Edward 

 J. Kennedy, John Webster, and T. M. Scharf, student assistants 

 provided by the National Youth Administration through the Univer- 

 sity of Maryland. 



In the laboratory of the State Medical College at Charleston, S. C, 

 Cecil Leroy Smith, chemist, provided b}^ the Works Progress Adminis- 

 tration through the State Medical College and assisting Mr. Coulson 

 of our technological staff' in studies of the pharmacology and nutritive 

 value of mineral constituents in fishery products. 



