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Corner obtained a position with the British Cotton Industry Research Association, Manchester, in 1928, working initially in the rayon department where she developed a fascination with microanalysis. As a result of her acquired background, she was promoted to Head of the Microanalytical Section then in 1945, she obtained a similar post with the British Leather Manufacturers Research Association. Two years later, Comer was invited to become Head of the newly formed Microanalytical Section of the Chemical Research Laboratory (later the National Chemical Laboratory). 

By 1921, her original work on proteins led to an invitation to join the British Leather Manufacturers Research Association, a move which, according to Marjory Stephenson, probably robbed this country of a distinguished professor of biochemistry. 59(a) As a final contribution to her original research field, Jordan Lloyd wrote the classic work The Chemistry of Proteins, published in 1926, for which Hopkins wrote the introduction (a second edition, co-authored with Agnes Shore, appeared in 1938).60... 

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, Report of the British chemical mission on the chemical factories in the occupied area of Germany (London, 1919) Confidential Report on the leather mission to the occupied areas in Germany, Jul 1919 (Public Record Office London, DSIR 36/1898) J.E. Fletcher, and J.G. Pearce, "Continental Foundry Developments. Research Institutions and works laboratories for pure and applied research" (Jan 1926), Public Record Office London, DSIR 36/4238. 

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