SECTION II., 1902 [2838 } Trans. R. 8. C. 
VII.—A Canadian Bibliography of the Year 1901. 
By Mr. LAWRENCE J. BURPEE. 
(Read May 27, 1902.) 
The preparation of the following bibliography was undertaken 
at the request of the late Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society. 
Sir John Bourinot had for several years advocated the compiling of an 
annual Canadian Bibliography, to be published in the Transactions of 
the Royal Society, which would cover everything of importance by Can- 
adian writers, bearing upon subjects included in the English Litera- 
ture section of the Society. He had had some thoughts of attempting 
such a bibliography himself—and his admirable bibliography of the 
Royal Society proved his special fitness for the present task—but the 
pressure of other engagements made it impossible. No other member 
of the Royal Society seemed prepared to undertake the bibliography, 
and Sir John Bourinot, knowing that I had had some little experience 
in work of this nature, asked me to attempt it. 
I had several opportunities of discussing the plan and scope of 
the proposed work with Sir John Bourinot, and we finally decided 
to include, not only books, but, as far as they could be identified, 
pamphlets, papers in society transactions, and magazine articles. In 
the latter class have keen included quarterly, monthly and weekly 
periodicals — everything, in fact, except newspapers. Of course, the 
list has not been confined to Canadian periodicals, but includes, as 
well, Canadian work in English and American magazines. The con- 
tents of Canadian college magazines have also been embodied in the 
bibliography. The list is confined to books, articles, etc., in English, 
but the original intention to restrict it to subjects covered by the 
English Literature section of the Society was not found altogether 
feasible, as it was sometimes difficult to define exactly what did and 
what did not belong to that section. I have consequently included, 
not only material in history, biography, fiction, poetry, archeology, 
and other subjects coming within the boundaries of the English Lit- 
erature section, but also considerable matter belonging to the Scien- 
tific sections. Although these sections have, of recent years, been 
fairly well covered by special bibliographies, it did not seem desirable 
to exclude anything that might serve to supplement the material they 
contained. At the same time, the bibliography does not profess to 
he anything like exhaustive, so far as purely scientific publications are 
concerned. 
