Preface. 



It has hitherto been a serious handicap to all those who may have found 

 it necessary or desirable to consult the publications of the Canadian Institute 

 that no Index existed to make the contents of these publications easily avail- 

 able. In order to remove this handicap Mr. J . B . Tyrrell, when President of the 

 Institute, took up the question and by his generosity in undertaking to finance 

 the compilation of the index made it possible for the Council to proceed with 

 the work. The present time is especially opportune for issuing the index, as 

 it includes all the volumes published by the Institute before it received the 

 title "Royal". It is suggested that in future an index for every ten 

 volumes should be issued. 



The Publications began in 1852 and up to the present 34 volumes have 

 been issued. These volumes contain articles on many branches of puer and 

 applied Science, Economics, Art, Literature, etc., and are representative of 

 the growth and trend of scientific thought in Canada. In the earlier volumes, 

 when magazines dealing with special branches of Science were few, the Cana- 

 dian Journal formed one of the principal means by which the scientific 

 labours of the Canadians of that day found expression, but with the growth 

 of literature and with the specialization in almost every branch of human 

 learning, the means for publishing papers in Journals dealing directly with 

 the subject involved have greatly increased ; as a result the Transactions of 

 the Institute have come to deal more with purely Canadian subjects and 

 general problems. 



In compiling the index, in view of the varied character of the articles, it 

 was determined to make a general index of the papers and their contents with- 

 out any attempt to classify the entries under the various branches of science 

 to which they belong nor to give the subjects and authors in separate parts. 

 A person desiring to look up a particular name simply has to look for that 

 name, or in the case of a subject the names under which that subject would 

 most likely be given. It is hoped that this method will make it a simple 

 matter to look up any reference that may be given in the Publications. 



The work of compiling the index and supervising its publication was 

 entrusted to Mr J. Patterson, the honorary secretary of the Institute, who 

 with Mrs. Patterson has carried out the work with care and accuracy. 



The expense has so far been met by contributions of Members of the Insti- 

 tute. The names of these are as follows: J. B. Tyrrell, Sir Sandford Fleming, 

 Sir Edmund Walker, Alex. Longwell. 



To all these Members, and to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, and to all who have 

 helped in this work, the Council are deeply grateful. 



FRANK ARNOLDI, 



President. 



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