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SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 



July, 1922 



necessary facilities in the Central Research 

 Institute at Ottawa; but the majority will, 

 for many years at least, have to go to 

 European or American Universities. For- 

 tunately this is not an unmixed evil, as 

 it should bring home to Canadian institu- 

 tions of higher learning nOt only the im- 

 perative necessity of recognizing the need 

 for the expansion and emrichment of their 

 curricula but also the urgency .of edu- 

 cating the public to a realization of the 

 fact that such facilities must be provided 

 for without undue delay. 



Obviously it is beyond the province of 

 any university, or of any group of univer- 

 sities in this country, to assume the full 

 or even the major part of the responsibil- 

 ity for the establishment of the necessary 

 laboratories and for the maintenance of a 

 highly qualified staff. The major part of 

 this work should come under a Federal 

 organization such as the Central Research 

 Institute. Even admitting this general 

 truth, the Universities, nevertheless, should 

 make such pro\dsion for their staff that 

 the spirit of research may be fostered in 

 every department and such an atmosphere 

 created as may encourage young men and 

 women to qualify themselves for this most 

 useful public service. 



"The kernel of this problem", as it 

 relates to Canada, said Dr. A. B. Macallum 

 recently, "is the fact that not one of 

 our leading Universities is staffed and 

 equipped in science to compare with any 

 one of the ten leading Amercian Univer- 

 sities. ' ' 



In speaking on this question at the Ox- 

 ford Congress last summer, R. "VV. Lee, 

 Rhodes Professor of Roman-Dutch Law, 

 I^niversity of Oxford, said: "The Do- 

 minions are looking to the Universities of 

 the old country to do for them what thej^ 

 cannot at present do for themselves — to 

 suppl}^ them Avith ample and varied oppor- 

 tunities for post graduate work 



Never in the history of University edu- 

 cation, was there such an opportunity as 

 still offers, but will not much longer offer, 

 itself to the Universities of the Old Coun- 

 try. Are we here, in Oxford, alive to it? 

 Have we even now learnt to take a large 

 and imperial view of education. If the 

 answer must be in the negative, I conjure 

 the representatives of the Dominions at- 



tending this Conference to tell us with the 

 utmost frankness what they want, and what 



(if the case be so), they do not get 



Let us make the most of an unexampled 

 opi>ortunity. " ' 



In concluding my address, permit me to 

 quote a statement Avhich I made before 

 the Vancouver Institute when speaking on 

 "Gleanings from the Congress of the Uni- 

 versities of the Empire". On that occa- 

 sion, I said : ' ' For reasons which are pat- 

 ent to all, I have not attempted to deal with 

 one ver}- important subject except indirect- 

 ly and by means of one or two incidental 

 referenees. I refer to research — research 

 scientific, historical and humanistic. I 

 cannot refrain from stating, however, that 

 during the past five years there has been a 

 complete change of attitude on the part of 

 the Universities of the Mother Country 

 tovrards providing post graduate facilities 

 for students from the overseas Dominions. 

 If the two Congresses of the Universities 

 of the Empire have accomplished no other 

 useful purpose, they will still, in my con- 

 sidered judgment, have abundantly justi- 

 fied their existence". 



APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP 

 Regular Members 



E. G. Booth (^Saskatchewan, 1921, B.S.A.) 

 Dept. of Affriculture, Regina, Sask. 



R. L. Conklin (Cornell, D.V.M.) Mac- 

 donald College. P. Q. 



C. E. Lampman (Wisconsin, 1921, B.S. 

 A.) Macdonald College, P. Q. 



H. McPhail (Manitoba. 1915, 1921, B.A., 

 B.S.A.) Hazenmore, Sask. 



J. M. Robinson (McGill, 1912, B.S.A.) 

 Salmon Arm. B. C. 



J. M. Smith (EdinbHrgh, 1919 B. Sc.) 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Regina, Sask. 



E. D. McGreer (McGill, 1922, B.S.A.) 

 Live Stock Branch, Ottawa, Ont. 



H. F. Williamson (McGill, 1915, B.S.A.) 

 Farmingdale, L. I., U.S.A. 



G. D. Matthews (McGill, 1921, B.S.A.) 

 S.S.B. Quebec. P. Q. 



Associate Members 



H. B. .Towsey. S. S. B., Sherbrooke, P.Q. 



.Jolin Doutrall. Agricultural Agent, C.P.R. 

 Montreal. 



W. H. McGregor. Lot 16, P. E. I. 



S. J. Moofe. Truro, N.S. 



A. E. Wilson. Seed Grain Purchasing 

 Commission, Regina, Sask. 



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