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To meet this situation the Royal Canadian Institute, some two years 
ago, organised a ‘‘ Bureau of Industrial Research and School of Specific 
Industries’”’ and with this organisation it aims at promoting in every 
way available the alliance between science and industry and the 
advancement of original Scientific and Industrial Research in Canada. 
It aims at undertaking to report upon the bibliography of any scientific 
subject or the object of any Scientific and Industrial Research. Ina 
word it aims at taking from Industrialists perplexing manufacturing 
problems and by the application thereto of contemporary Science, 
working out practical commercial solutions of these problems. 
On the Council of the Bureau we have representatives from the 
staff of all the Faculties in the University of Toronto, we have repre- 
sentatives from the Technical Institute, the Canadian Manufacturers’ 
Association, the Board of Trade of Toronto and of the Associated Boards 
of Trade of Ontario. The Society of Chemical Industry also has repre- 
sentatives on the Council. Moreover we are assured, I am told, of the 
hearty support of practically all of those members of the staff of the 
University who may not for the time being be members of the Council. 
I have no doubt, too, that in the course of time the Council will include 
representatives from the various departments of the Provincial Govern- 
ment and of the Trades and Labour Council. It is gratifying to find 
that at its inception the Bureau has secured the hearty support of such 
influential bodies as I have mentioned. It means that many preliminary 
difficulties have been successfully overcome and that we can now move 
forward united and confident of the ultimate success of the local move- 
ment. 
Among other directions in which the Bureau intends to act, it aims 
as mentioned above, at working out an information department. It is 
thought that such a department can first of all encourage the manu- 
facturers to apply to the Bureau for information on the technique of 
specific industries. It is our opinion too that surveys should be made 
from time to time of our industries by the Bureau with a view to collating 
information regarding the character and extent of their mechanical 
equipment. Furnished by them with this information it will be possible 
to make suggestions for increasing production and for embarking on 
the manufacture of new products. We have in the Royal Canadian 
Institute as I have stated the basis of a good technical library. We 
have, too, the Toronto Public Reference Library, the University Library, 
and the Provincial Library in close proximity. But the technical side 
of all these libraries could be greatly extended. I venture to think that 
this is a direction in which we would be warranted in applying to the 
Dominion Treasury for financial assistance. An information depart- 
