United States

In the United States the Wool Bureau Incorporated, New York, functions as a headquarters for all North and South American wool activities. Research work on wool, funded by IWS moneys, lis proceeding at the Fabric Research Institute, Boston and at the Harris Research Laboratories, Washington, while the United States Department of Agriculture has at Albany. California, its Western Regional Laboratory at which wool research, both (pure and applied, is a major interest. At Lowell. Massachusetts, a Product Development and Technical Services Laboratory has recently been established.

The nature and scope of the Australian sheep and wool research has already been described.