XVI THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Father Jones published various pamphlets of historic interest. 

 In recent years a great part of his time was taken up in answering 

 appeals for historic information from all over the continent. Besides 

 his membership in the Royal Society of Canada, he was Member of 

 the International Congress of Americanists and addressed that learned 

 body at Quebec, in 1906, on Huron topography. He was also Cor- 

 responding Member of various historical societies of America. 



During his sixty years in the Jesuit Order, this delver into the 

 by-paths of Canadian history was remarkable for the simplicity of 

 his life, his courtesy, and his kindly feeling towards all men. 



IV. — The Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and 

 Industrial Research 



The Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial 

 Research reports a year of activity in organization to meet the re- 

 quirements for the promotion of research in Canada, and in the formu- 

 lation of measures to assist in the development of the industries and 

 the utilization of our natural resources along expert lines. 



Associate Committees on Chemistry and on Mining and Metall- 

 urgy, consisting of specialists in these lines from all over Canada, have 

 been appointed, and an Advisory Committee for British Columbia 

 has been created to assist the Council in dealing with industrial 

 problems affecting that province. A considerable number of Special 

 Committees, composed of experts not members of the Council, have 

 been constituted to report to the Council on industrial questions. 



The Council has had under consideration the question of the 

 method and organization which will best promote research in Canada, 

 especially on problems concerned in the development of the industries 

 of the country, and, as a result, it recommends the foundation at 

 Ottawa of a National Research Institute, associated with laboratories 

 which can be placed at the disposal, under conditions, of industries in 

 particular lines, for research on their own problems. The Research 

 Institute would have the functions of the Washington Bureau of 

 Standards or of the National Physical Laboratory of Great Britain. 



An effort has been made to ascertain the man-power and equip- 

 ment for research in Canada, by the issue of questionnaires to the 

 industries,' to the technical societies and the heads of the Laboratories 

 of the Government Departments and of the Universities. A great 

 majority of these have been returned and the information they furnish 

 has been, in great part, now summarized. The situation thus far 

 revealed indicates that radical measures involving the direct en- 

 couragement of scientific research in pure and in applied science must 

 be undertaken. 



