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are waiting we are endangering our interests, endangering our commercial 

 future. We should spring at the great business opportunities which 

 are presented to us. The Government of Canada for its part, we trust, 

 will immediately step in and follow the lead of England in this respect. 

 We have the right to expect that Governmental efforts will be im- 

 mediately supplemented by the successful support of the Bureau of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research which we are now promoting to deal 

 with the private commercial aspects of the campaign, and as well to 

 participate in and to promote the general commercial success of Canada's 

 enterprises and manufactures. 



The Royal Canadian Institute has acted in the direction indicated 

 by the institution of a " Bureau of Scientific and Industrial Research 

 and School of Specific Industries", following upon the advocacy of such 

 a course set forth in the publications of the Institute, and particularly 

 the "Red Pamphlet" issued in 1914. 



This Bureau, as promised, is modelled on the Mellon Institute at 

 Pittsburg, of which much has already been said in the "Red Pamphlet," 

 and in addresses delivered in the Institute. The Bureau is already in 

 operation and meeting, through its secretary, such persons and corpora- 

 tions as should or may require to have its aid. The investigations which 

 the Bureau may be called upon or be employed to make, it will place 

 in the most efficient hands to be found for the particular purpose in 

 view at one of the universities under such conditions as may be neces- 

 sary. In particular cases it may be necessary for the Bureau itself to 

 make the research, for which means will in this particular case have to 

 be provided by endowment by the applicant for the research. The 

 conditions of research will in each case be the subject of an agreement 

 with the applicant similar to that form of agreement ratified by use at 

 the Mellon Institute. You will at once ask how the Institute has pro- 

 vided the means for the maintenance of the Bureau even the initial 

 means necessary to meet the preliminary expenses of launching it. 

 My answer is that the Institute has not been able to provide the means 

 required. The members and the public are to be asked to provide the 

 means which are required, to the amount of about $10,000, which will 

 set the work going satisfactorily, and enable us during the first year to 

 provide for the future, in case (unlike the Institute at Pittsburg) we do 

 not find ourselves visited by benefactors like the Brothers Mellon to 

 provide one half million for a laboratory for the Bureau and another 

 half million for it spermanent endowment. 



A committee has been formed for the purpose of collecting the means 

 required, consisting of the following governors of the Bureau, i.e.: Prof. 

 J. C. McLennan, Frank Arnoldi, J. B. Tyrrell, Dr. Field, W. B. Tindall, 

 Prof. A. B. Macallum, and the Secretary-Treasurer F. M. Turner. 



