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III. BUREAU OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH OF THE ROYAL 
CANADIAN INSTITUTE. | 
And now I may be asked what part does the Royal Canadian Institute 
aim at taking in the scheme of National Industrial Research which I 
have briefly outlined. In a sentence it aims at providing local effort to 
meet local needs. 
The Royal Canadian Institute was incorporated by a Royal Charter 
granted on the 4th of November, 1851. Its aims are: 
I. To promote scientific research in Canada. For this purpose it 
encourages all who are workers in Science to present to the public 
through its meetings the results of their investigations and it offers to 
them every facility for making these known through the Proceedings 
and the Transactions which immediately on publication are sent to 
upwards of five hundred scientific learned societies throughout the 
world. 
II. To form in Canada a library of the publications of all the scien- 
tific societies of the world. These publications are given in exchange 
for the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 
and as this exchange has been going on for upwards of sixty five years 
the Institute has in consequence a library of about 10,000 volumes com- 
posed of the scientific memoirs and archives of all the important learned 
societies. This library is the only one of its kind in Canada and it has 
already proved of very great value to workers in Science. 
III. To engage and lead the attention of the people to questions of 
public interest and utility on which scientific opinion may have an 
important bearing and 
IV. To bring into co-operation all the scientific workers in Canada. 
The institute endeavours to accomplish this by offering assistance in 
the way of publication of valuable papers of scientific workers and by 
placing at their service the library of the Institute. But the aims of 
the Royal Canadian Institute are higher still for it recognised that from 
economical and geographical considerations the Western portion of 
Ontario including the city of Toronto and its associated contributary 
districts is marked out as a region of intense prospective industrial 
activity. Its numerous railways, existent and projected, both steam 
driven and electric, together with its vast available resources in electric 
power, indicate very clearly that it is peculiarly well suited for the 
location of numerous and extensive industries. These industries will 
require scientific guidance and advice, and an organised scientific basis 
for the economical production and manufacture of their products. 
