PROCEEDINGS FOR 1917 XVII 



The Government of Great Britain, having been brought to a 

 realization of these facts, appointed in July, 1915, a committee of the 

 Imperial Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, with an 

 advisory council composed of eight men distinguished in the world of 

 science and industry "for the development of scientific and industrial 

 research" applicable to the problems of war and the development of 

 the industries of peace that follow the war. 



The Government of Australia thereupon established "a Common- 

 wealth institute of science and industry" along similar lines. New 

 Zealand and India have also expressed a desire to co-operate with 

 the Imperial Government in every possible way. 



If, after the war, the industries and manufactures of the Dominion 

 are to develop and expand in the face of the very rigorous competition 

 which will grow up under the conditions which will follow the declara- 

 tion of peace, it is necessary that our industrial and manufacturing 

 operations shall be carried on with much more efficiency than has, as 

 a general rule, characterized them in the past. 



Taking a leaf out of our enemies' book, and for the purpose of 

 making a first step toward the closer application of science to the 

 industrial development of the Dominion, the Government of Canada 

 on June 6th, 1915, appointed a Committee of the Canadian Privy 

 Council consisting of the Right Honourable the Minister of Trade and 

 Commerce (Chairman), the Honourable the Ministers of the Interior, 

 Agriculture, Mines, Inland Revenue and Labour, to devise and carry 

 out measures to promote and assist scientific and industrial research 

 with a view to the fuller development of Canadian industries and 

 production in order that during and after the present war they may be 

 in a position to supply all Canadian needs and to extend Canadian 

 trade abroad. 



Under this committee of the Privy Council there was constituted 

 on the 29th of November, an Honorary Advisory Council for Scien- 

 tific and Industrial Research, composed of the following eleven 

 members, representative of scientific and industrial interests of Ca- 

 nada: — 



A. B. Macallum, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Adminis- 

 trative Chairman, Ottawa. 



F. D. Adams, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Dean, Faculty of 

 Applied Science, McGill University, Montreal. 



T. Bienvenu, Esq., Vice-President and General Manager, La 

 Banque Provinciale du Canada, Montreal. 



R. Hobson, Esq., President, Steel Company of Canada, Hamilton, 

 Ont. 



