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At George Washington University, Washington, D. C, Wilham H. 

 Conway and WilHam J. P. Howard, senior medical students provided 

 by the National Youth Administration through the university and 

 working on the problem of the development of disinfectants for 

 sponges for household use. 



At Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., Miss Thelma 

 Chell, graduate student assistant, employed part time by the Bureau 

 of Fisheries and studying the chemistry of fish proteins; William F. 

 Coleman, Miss Helen H. Frey, and Miss Louella H. Mead, student 

 assistants provided by the National Youth Administration through 

 Western Maryland College and assisting Miss Chell in her study of 

 fish proteins. 



During the first half of 1935 while the Division was maintaining a 

 technological laboratory at Gloucester, Mass., the Bureau obtained 

 from Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., for work in the 

 Gloucester laboratory, Donald A. Bean and Richard M. Locke, student 

 assistants, who spent alternately 5 weeks in the university pursuing 

 the regular school curriculum and 5 weeks in our laboratory aiding in 

 the conduct of research problems pertaining to fish preservation and 

 spoilage. 



At Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass., William H. Con- 

 way, Jr., student assistant provided by the National Youth Adminis- 

 tration through the college and working on the study of the nutritive 

 value of mackerel. 



EDUCATIONAL AND CONSULTING SERVICES 



In addition to the activities described in this report, our economic 

 and technological staffs conduct an educational and considting service 

 for those interested in the fisheries. Some of these functions and 

 services have been discussed or referred to in previous paragraphs of 

 the report. In addition, various members of the staff" have conducted 

 lectures and practical demonstrations relative to the fisheries and the 

 fishery industries at various State educational institutions and at 

 public gatherings of various sorts. Also, members of the staff' deliver 

 radio addresses on various fishery subjects from time to time. The 

 Bureau or the Division also answered many thousands of letters on 

 fishery subjects and has supplied information to persons who have 

 called at the Bureau, personally. Many of the latter have come from 

 foreign lands to seek information on the conduct of the fishery indus- 

 tries in the United States, which might be useful in the more orderly 

 conduct of the fisheries of their native lands. 



FISHERY SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION 



During the months of January, February, and March 1935, the 

 division of markets of the Massachusetts State Department of Agri- 

 culture conducted schools of instruction in handling fish. The mem- 

 bers of the staff of the Gloucester, Mass., technological laboratory 

 cooperated with the State officials in this work. These schools were 

 designed particularly for the instruction of the retail dealers of fishery 

 products in the latest methods of sanitation and handling of these 

 products. There were also included suggestions as to attractive 

 methods of displaying and cooldng the various species of fish and shell- 



