XVIII THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



S. F. Kirkpatrick, M.Sc, Professor of Metallurgy, Queen's 

 University, Kingston, Ont. 



J. C. McLennan, Ph.D., F.R.S., Professor of Physics and Director 

 of the Physics Laboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, 

 Ont. 



A. S. Mackenzie, Ph.D., D.C.L., President, Dalhousie University, 

 Halifax, N.S. 



W. C. Murray, M.A., LL.D., President, University of Saskatche- 

 wan, Saskatoon, Sask. 



R. A. Ross, Esq., E.E. (Tor.), M. Can. Soc. C.E., Consulting 

 Engineer, 80 St. Francois Xavier St., Montreal, Que. 



R. F. Ruttan, M. A., M.D., Sc.D., Professor of Chemistry, and 

 Director of the Chemical Laboratories, McGill University, 

 Montreal, Que. 



Arthur Surveyer, B.A.Sc, M. Can. Soc. C.E., Consulting Engineer 

 274 Beaver Hall Hill, Montreal. 



Secretary: J. B. Challies, C.E. (Tor.), M. Can. Soc. C.E., Superin- 

 tendent, Dominion Water Power Branch, Department of 

 the Interior, Ottawa. 



This Advisory Council, by direction of the Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee of the Privy Council, has been charged with the following 

 duties: 



(a) To ascertain and tabulate the various agencies in Canada 

 which are now carrying on scientific and industrial research in the 

 universities and colleges, in the various laboratories of the Govern- 

 ment, in business organizations and industries, in scientific associations 

 or by' private or associated investigators. 



(b) To note and schedule the lines of research or investigation 

 that are being pursued by each such agency, their facilities and equip- 

 ment therefor, the possibilities of extension and expansion, and par- 

 ticularly to ascertain the scientific man power available for research 

 and the necessity of adding thereto. 



(c) To co-ordinate these agencies so as to prevent overlapping 

 of effort, to induce co-operation and team work, and to bring up 

 a community of interest, knowledge and mutual helpfulness between 

 each other. 



(d) To make themselves acquainted with the problems of a 

 technical and scientific nature that are met with by our productive 

 and industrial interests, and to bring them into contact with the 

 proper research agencies for solving these problems, and thus link 

 up the resources of science with the labor and capital employed in 



