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ABSTRACT IN his annual report for 1947 to the chairman and governors of Ontario Research Foundation (43 Queens Park, Toronto 5), the Director of Research refers to the virtual completion of

the extension of the main building and to a considerable expansion of the scientific and administrative staff. During the year a new Industrial Research Services Department was established

particularly to help the numerous small industrial units of the Province, and the Department is expected to handle about two thousand inquiries a year. The Chemistry Department prepared a

comprehensive report for the Minister of Mines on the processes in operation for the removal of sulphur gases from smelter fumes; fellowships were concerned with emulsion inks, waxes and

transparent paper, sulphite liquor, the manufacture of carboxymethyl-cellulose, and the polymerization systems butadiene – styrene, butadiene – isoprene and isoprene – styrene. In the

Department of Engineering and Metallurgy, sixty-seven investigations were undertaken on behalf of various firms, and fellowships on the influence of chemical composition and physical

structure of forged steel balls and their resistance to wear during grinding, and on wire rope, and work on the economics of ferrous smelting in Ontario continued. The Department of

Parasitology carried further its work on the life-histories and the factors influencing the activity of black flies and leucocytozoon infection in ruffed grouse and other birds, especially

domestic ducklings. Several drugs used successfully in combating malarial infection in man gave negative results on infected birds. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a

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