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tion of such permanent and practical 

 service as the Forest Products La- 

 boratories. He realized he said that 

 Canada had been wasteful of her 

 forest wealth, allowing the living 

 forests to be preyed upon by fire, 

 but that a new sense of the impor- 

 tance of conserving the raw mater- 

 ials of a great industry had come 

 upon the country, one expression of 

 which was the wide interest taken 

 in the Forest Products Laboratories. 

 It was the aim of the Laboratories 

 to seek out better methods of wood 

 utilization and to discover uses for 

 what was now cast aside. Manu- 

 facturers would learn to avail them- 

 selves of the institution for the solv- 

 ing of their commercial problems, 

 the improvement and cheapening of 

 processes. There would be given to 

 the country the great asset of scien- 

 tifically trained men, capable oi 

 applying their talents in the service 

 of one of the foremost Canadian in- 

 dustries. 



The Cost of 



'Not Doing." 



Sir William Peterson, Principal of 

 McGill University, said he was 

 proud to be the ally of the Minister 

 of the Interior in the establishing of 

 the Laboratories, since he believed 

 that a University should be a centre 

 of practical use to the community as 

 well as a seat of learning. This was 

 the first example of what could be 

 done in the advancement of applied 

 science by co-operation between the 

 University and the Government. 

 "We do not want ever to have to go 

 to Germany for anything again," ob- 

 served Sir William, "and we want to 

 collaborate with the Government to 

 devise means to avoid this. It is 

 not a question of what it will cost 

 to do the thing but what it will cost 

 not to do it." 



Hon. Sydney Fisher warmly con- 

 gratulated Hon. Dr. Roche upon the 

 general standard of efficiency which 

 had characterized his departmental 

 management, and emphasized the 

 necessity for efficient management 

 of natural resources, for which pur- 

 pose the Laboratories had been 

 brought into being. Brief addresses 



were given by Mr. T. H. Wardle- 

 worth, President of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry, Dr. Hugh P. 

 Baker, Dean of the Forestry Facul- 

 ty Svracuse University, New York, 

 and Mr. R. H. Campbell, Director of 

 Forestry. 



Following is a list of those pre- 

 sent : — T T-. 



Government :— Hon. W. J. Roche, 

 Minister of the Interior, Ottawa; R. 

 H Campbell, Director of Forestry, 

 Dept. of Interior; Dr. A. McGill, 

 Chief Analyst, Dept. of Inland Re- 

 venue ; Dr. C. G. Hewitt, D.Sc, Do- 

 minion Entomologist, Dept. of Agri- 

 culture ; R. Grigg, Commissioner of 

 Commerce, Dept. of Trade and Com- 

 merce ; J. M. Macoun, C.M.G., Asst. 

 Botanist, Geological Survey, Depart- 

 ment of Mines, Ottawa. 



Advisory Committee : — F. How- 

 ard Wilson; J. A. DeCew; Dr. R. F. 

 Ruttan, Dept. of Chemistry, McGill 

 University; Carl Riordon, Riordon 

 Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. ; Prof. H. M. 

 Mackay, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 

 McGill University; R. O. Sweezey, 

 Royal Military College, Kingston; 

 Dr. Frank D. Adams, McGill Uni- 

 versity. 



McGill University: — Sir Wm. 

 Peterson, K.C.M.G., McGill Univer- 

 sity; Mr. Walter Vaughan, Secre- 

 tary McGill University; Dr. H. T. 

 Barnes, F.R.S., McGill University; 

 Dr. T. B. Porter, Faculty of Applied 

 Science, McGill University; Prof. 

 H. O. Keay, Prof. E. Brown, Prof. 

 C. H. McLeod, Faculty of Applied 

 Science, McGill University; Dr. F. 

 C. Harrison, Principal Macdonald 

 College ; Dr. J. F. Snell, Macdonald 

 College ; Prof. Carrie M. Derick, Mc- 

 Gill University. 



Foresters : — Ellwood Wilson, 

 Laurentide Co.," Ltd., Grand Mere, 

 Quebec; Clyde Leavitt, Forester, 

 Commission of Conservation, Otta- 

 wa; E. J. Zavitz, Provincial Fores- 

 ter, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto. 



Canadian Forestry Association :— 

 Robson Black, Secretary, Ottawa. 



Canadian Pulp and Paper Asso- 

 ciation: — C. Howard Smith, How- 

 ard Smith Paper Mills, Ltd., Mon- 

 treal. . 



