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INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH IN CANADA. 
To the Members of the Royal Canadian Institute. 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 
Before proceeding with the subject which I have chosen for my 
inaugural address, namely, Industrial Research in Canada, I must first 
of all express to you my appreciation of the high honour you have con- 
ferred upon me in electing me to be your President for the coming year. 
Owing to limitations imposed upon my time I may not be able to 
preside at as many of your weekly meetings as a proper fulfilment of 
my duties demands, but if I fail in this regard, I know that my defici- 
encies will be met by the kind and generous co-operation of our Vice- 
Presidents, Mr. J. Murray Clark and Dr. A. C. McKay, Principal of 
the first Technical Institute of Canada, which has been inaugurated 
recently with such marked success, and which, with good warrant, is 
a source of great pride to us all. In the second place I wish to take 
this opportunity of expressing to our past President, Mr. Frank 
Arnoldi, K.C., our sincere appreciation of his services in emphasising 
the importance of the functions of the Royal Canadian Institute in 
our midst, in inaugurating a Bureau of Industrial Research in con- 
nection with our organisation, and in stimulating and promoting with 
zeal and patient determination the consideration of matters connected 
with the subject of Industrial Research. 
I also wish on this occasion to give expression to the sense of loss we 
all feel in the death of Dr. George Kennedy, which took place in June 
last. For two years he was President of the Royal Canadian Institute, 
and for thirty years he was the editor of its Transactions. He attended 
the Saturday evening lectures perhaps more regularly than any other 
existing member of our organisation and he took an unfailing and 
helpful interest in everything which had to do with the welfare of the 
Society. He devoted all his hours of recreation to science and the works 
of philanthropy, and on passing away made provision for promoting 
both of these objects, the Institute itself being one of his beneficiaries. 
The memory of his presence with us is one that we shall always cherish, 
and the purity of his aims and the single mindedness with which he 
regulated the conduct of his life will long serve as a model for us all. 
