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THE National Research Laboratories at Ottawa now employ about 190 workers organized in five divisions: agriculture and biology; chemistry; physics and electrical engineering, mechanical engineering including aeronautics; and research information, with which is associated a national scientific library service. A review of the year's work recently issued for the National Research Council of Canada stresses the increasing service which is rendered to industry; much of the work carried out in the Division of Biology and Agriculture forms part of large co-operative research projects, mainly in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture but also with the universities and similar organizations. A low-temperature laboratory has been equipped, and physical conditions for dechilling boxed poultry without condensation have been established. Research on malting barley is being carried on in co-operation with industry, and a comprehensive review of the literature on chemical weed killers is being published as a guide to research in this field.
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National Research Laboratories, Ottowa. Nature 139, 620 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139620b0
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