LXX THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The Department of Historical Research is chiefly engaged in the 
preparation of publications intended to assist investigators in Ameri- 
can history. For this purpose it has explored and catalogued archives 
in Canada, Cuba, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, 
The Netherlands, etc. 
The Research Associates subsidized by the Carnegie Institution 
have a very wide range of activities. In archeology they have ex- 
plored Mexico and Central America, the shores of the Mediterranean, 
and Turkestan. They have made contributions to mathematical 
science. To English and Continental literature they have contrib- 
uted an edition of the Arthurian Romances in seven quarto volumes. 
They have made studies in the Polynesian languages. 
The Institution has issued about two hundred and fifty publica- 
tions covering its investigations in science, literature, archeology, 
economics, and history. 
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded 
in 1901 by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. In the aggregate Mr. Rockefeller 
has contributed twelve million dollars to its endowment. The pur- 
poses of the Institute as described by the amended charter are stated 
as follows: ‘The object of the Corporation shall be to conduct, assist, 
and encourage investigations in the sciences and arts of hygiene, 
medicine and surgery, and allied subjects, in the nature and causes 
of disease and the methods of.its prevention and treatment, and to 
make knowledge relating to these various subjects available for the 
protection of the health of the public and the improved treatment 
of diseases and injury. It shall be within the purposes of the said 
Corporation to use any means to those ends which from time to time 
shall seem to it expedient, including research, publication, education, 
the establishment and maintenance of charitable or benevolent 
activities, agencies or institutions appropriate thereto, and the aid of 
any other such activities, agencies or institutions already established 
or which may hereafter be established.”’ 
The Institute, situated in New York, is composed of the Labor- 
atories, the Hospital, and the Department of Animal Pathology. The 
Laboratories cover the subjects of pathology, bacteriology, chemistry, 
physiology, pharmacology, experimental biology and experimental 
surgery. The Hospital is equipped with pathological, physiological, 
and chemical laboratories of its own. Diseases occurring in domestic 
animals are of great economic importance, and their investigation 
is suggestive to the student of human diseases; for this reason the 
Department of Animal Pathology has been established. 
The work in the Hospital at any one time is confined to selected 
cases that bear on a limited number of subjects chosen for investiga- 
