ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



APPENDIX TO PROCEEDINGS FOR 1885. 



(See page vi.) 



Report of the Committee of the Royal Society of Canada ronsisting of Professors 

 Johnson, MacG-regor and Cherriman, Dr. Hunt and M. Sulte, on the Encourage- 

 ment of Original Literary and Scientific Work. 



Tour Committee were appointed on May 25th, 1883, and instructed " to inquire into, and report 

 upon the forms of Aid and Encouragement given in other countries to young men deemed qualified and 

 desirous to engage in Original Literary or Scientific Work, and to suggest the best means of providing 

 similar aid and encouragement for young men in Canada." In consequence, partly, of the death of Dr. 

 Todd, who had undertaken to assist in gathering together the necessary information, we were unable 

 to make a report at the last meeting of the Society. We were, therefore, rc-ajjpointed with the 

 original instructions. In carrj-ing out your instructions, we have restricted our enquiries to the 

 United Kingdom and her Colonies and the United States. 



We have considered it unnecessary to report uj)on the educational facilities provided by Univer- 

 sities for advanced study of literary and scientific subjects, such as lectures, libraries, museums and 

 laboratories. An account of such facilities, as offered in various countries, would fill volumes, and we 

 may safely assume that not only all the Fellows of the Society but also the educated public are already 

 convinced of the necessity of giving our Universities the best possible equij)ment in these resjiects. 

 We have, therefore, restricted our inquiry to the incomes provided by Universities and other corpora- 

 tions, in the form of Fellowshijjs, Scholarships, Exhibitions, Bursaries, etc., to enable young men of 

 promise to devote themselves for longer or shorter periods to the study of the higher branches of 

 learning. 



It has been found somewhat difficult to distinguish between incomes provided to assist students in 

 pursuing a course of general education (usually called Scholarships, Exhibitions, etc.,) and those 

 intended to enable them to pursue the study of special branches (often called Fellowships). We have 

 considered incomes awarded to students for their support before the attainment of the academic rank 

 of Bachelor as beyond the scope of our rej)ort, but those intended to assist them in pursuing their 

 studies after their attainment of that rank, we have considered to be '' forms of aid and encourage- 

 ment " as to which information was to be sought. In cases in which Scholarships, etc., though 

 awarded before graduation arc teaable after graduation, we consider them to be " forms of aid " 

 beginning at the date of graduation, and they are thus entered in the table given below. 



It need hardly be said that wo have included in the statement given below, only those Fellow- 

 ships, etc., which are awarded on conditions permitting the holders of them to devote themselves to 

 advanced study of a literary or scientific kind. We have, therefore, excluded purely professional 

 Fellowships. There are, however, cases in which the pursuit of some branch of what is ordinarily 

 considered Professional study is permitted, as for instance Hebrew or Physiology, which we have 

 considered to come within the scope of our report. 



The information which we have collected will be found, we hope, to t)e tolerably full and 

 practically accurate, although there may, no doubt, be errors in it in spite of all precautions. Our 

 object has been, not so much to give a minutely detailed account of encouragement offered hy 

 Universities to their graduates to engage in literary or scientific work, as to shew had much greater 

 is the encom-agement offered by means of Fellowships in other countries than in Canada. 



With respect to the United Kingdom, wc have relied upon the Calendars of Universities and 



