IODINE RESEARCH
NEW ZEALANDER'S POST [from our own* correspondent! LONDON, June 15 A member of the staff of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, Miss Ethelwyn M. Mason, of Tauranga, has bpen appointed technical assistant to Dr. Francis C. Kelly, the new director of the lodine Educational Bureau, recently formed by the Nitrate Cor- ' poration of Chile, Limited. The new bureau will collect all available scientific information which has been developed in respect of iodine since ]Bll, when the element was discovered by the French chemist, Bernard Courtois. This information will be placed at the disposal of the medical profession and scientific agricultural circles, as well as commercial interests including feeding stuffs manufacturers and livestock breeders. In addition, the bureau will collaborate with scientific institutions in experimental research to extend the knowledge of iodine, with special reference to its use in human and animal nutrition. M iss Mason holds the degree of Master of Science from the University of New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23083, 7 July 1938, Page 3
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161IODINE RESEARCH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23083, 7 July 1938, Page 3
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