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production so as to bring about the best possible economic results. 



(e) To make a scientific study of our common unused resources, 

 the waste and by-products of our farms, forests, fisheries and in- 

 dustries, with a view to their utilization in new or subsidiary processes 

 of manufacture and thus contributing to the wealth and employment 

 of our people. 



(f) To study the ways and means by which the present small 

 number of competent and trained research men can be added to from 

 the students and graduates of science in our universities and colleges, 

 and to bring about in the common interest a more complete co-opera- 

 tion between the industrial and productive interests of the country 

 and the teaching centres and forces of science and research. 



(g) To inform and stimulate the public mind in regard to the 

 importance and utility of applying the results of scientific and indus- 

 trial research to the processes of production by means of addresses 

 to business and industrial bodies, by the publication of bulletins and 

 monographs, and such other methods as may seem advisable. 



In pursuance of the work with which it has been charged, the 

 Council, in order to develop in Canada a body of men who have been 

 thoroughly trained in science and its application to industry, such as 

 that which has aided so greatly in the industrial development of 

 Germany in recent years, has recommended to the Government the 

 establishment of twenty or more studentships and fellowships in Cana- 

 dian universities and technical schools, to be given to men who have 

 completed their regular course of study and have displayed a special 

 aptitude for scientific research. 



These will enable such men to pursue a course of advanced work 

 for a further period and thus acquire a practical training in the methods 

 and conduct of research. Arrangements are also contemplated 

 whereby students will be placed in one or other of tlje great manu- 

 facturing establishments of the Dominion, where they will continue 

 their training under the conditions of actual commercial practice. 



For the purpose of making a complete census or inventory of 

 all work in scientific and industrial research which is being carried 

 on in the Dominion at the present time by all the agencies now at 

 work, and also for the purpose of ascertaining the various lines and 

 directions in which the application of research was most necessary 

 and might be made most fruitful in the development of our industries 

 and manufactures, the Council in the spring of 1917 issued question- 

 naires to all the Universities, Government Departments, Technical 

 Societies, as well as to all Canadian Manufacturers, asking under 

 definite heads for specific information on the various subjects which 

 come within the purview of the Council. In the distribution and in 



