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British Research Association for the Woolleii and 

 Worsted Industries, 

 Bond Place Chambers, Leeds. 

 Secretary — Mr. Arnold Profcisher, B.Sc. 

 British Scientific Instrument Research Association, 

 26, Russell Square, W.C.I. 

 Secretary — Mr. J. W. Williamson, B.Sc. 

 British Rubber and Tyre Manufacturers Research 

 Association, 

 c/o Messrs. W. B. Peat & Co., 11, Ironmonger 

 Lane, E.C.2. 

 The Linen Industry Research Association, 

 3, Bedford Street, Belfast. 

 Secretary — Miss M. K. E. Allen. 

 Glass Research Association, 

 7, Seamore Place, W.l. 

 Secretary — Mr. E. Quine, B.Se. 

 British Cocoa, Chocolate, Sugar Confectionery, and 

 Jam Trades Research Association, 

 9, Queen Street Place, E.C.4. 

 Secretary — Mr. R. M. Leonard. 



Scliemes for the establislmient of Research 

 Associations in the following industries have 

 reached an advanced state of development. 



RESEARCH ASSOCUTIONS APPROVED BY THE DE- 

 PARTMENT BUT NOT YET LICENSED BY THE 

 BOARD OF TRADE 



British Music Industries Research Associa- 

 tion. 



British Refractory Materials Research Asso- 

 ciation. 



British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Asso- 

 ciation. 



Scottish Shale Oil Research Association. 



PROPOSED RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONS WHOSE MEMO- 

 RANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCUTION ARE 

 UNDER OONIDERATION 



British Launderers Research Association. 

 British Electrical and Allied Industries Re- 

 search Association. 

 British Aircraft Research Association. 



INDUSTRIES ORGANIZATIONS ENG.AGED IN PREPARING 

 MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 



Silk Manufacturers. 



Leather Trades. 



Master Bakers and Confectioners. 



In addition to the industries included aibove, 

 certain others are engaged in the preliminary 



consideration for forming Researbli Associa- 

 tions. 



NATURAL GAS CONFERENCE 



Secretary Lane, of the Department of the 

 Interior, announces that the following ap- 

 pointments have been made for the committee 

 of ten authorized by the resolution at the 

 Natural Gas Conference, held under Secre- 

 tary Lane's invitation at Washington, Jan- 

 uary 15, 1920: Van H. Manning, director. 

 Bureau of Mines, chairman; John B. Corrin, 

 The Reserve Gas Company, Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania; L. B. Denning, The Ohio Fuel 

 Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; J. 0. 

 McDowell, Witchita Natural Gas Company, 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; W. L. McCloy, 

 The Philadelphia Company, Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania; John S. Rilling, Public Service Com- 

 mission of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Penn- 

 sylvania; Miss Edna N. White, American 

 Home Economics Association, Detroit, Mich- 

 igan; Art L. Walker, Chairman, Corporation 

 Committee, Oldahoma City Oklahoma; F. W. 

 Wozencraft, Mayor, Dallas, Texas; Samuel S. 

 Wyer, Consulting National Gas Engineer, 

 Columbus, Ohio; and Dr. I. C. White, state 

 geologist of West Virginia, Morgantown, 

 West Virginia. 



The functions of this committee will be to 

 consider the wastes now going on in natural 

 gas and the relations between the natural gas 

 companies and the consuming public. The 

 committee has been carefully selected from a 

 number of nominations with a view to repre- 

 senting equally the interests of the public 

 and the natural gas companies. Dr. Manning 

 writes : 



The development and utilization of the most 

 ideal fuel known to man — natural gas — ^has been 

 accompanied by lalmost inconceivable wastes. Al- 

 though these wastes have been greatly reduced dur- 

 ing recent years, they have by no means been elim- 

 inated and the country to-day is paying the penalty 

 of its sins by the depletion and even exhaustion 

 of many of the formerly prolific gas supplies. 

 These wastes have occurred in the fields where the 

 gas is produced; an the lines through which the 

 gas is transported; and from the cooking stoves, 

 furnaces, boiler plants, etc., where the gas is ulti- 

 mately consumed. 



