XXXVl PROCEEDINGS. 



Charles Canniff James, M. A., Ll. D., F. R. S. C, 

 C. M. G., was born in Napanee, Ont., in July, 1863, and 

 was educated at Victoria University, Toronto. He was Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry at the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Guelph, from 1866 to 1891; in June of the latter year was 

 appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Secretary of 

 the Bureau of Industries of Ontario; and more recently 

 became the Dominion Commissioner of Agriculture. He -was 

 a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was made a C. M. G. 

 in 1911, was president of the Ontario Historical Society, and 

 has also occupied other prominent offices. He was well 

 known as a lecturer and a contributor to magazines, and has 

 written several books, and brochures on historical and literary 

 topics, besides those on agricultural subjects. He was con- 

 sidered one of the best men in the public service of Ontario 

 and possessed a thoroughly scientific knowledge of agricul- 

 ture, combined with high talents of iniative and adminis- 

 tration. 



(2) The Man of Science in the. Community Today. 



Gentlemen: — Appalling beyond human comprehension as 

 are the evils of this insanest of all wars, j^et it cannot be 

 denied that some measure of good is emerging distinctly 

 from the welter. It is not too much to say that for the 

 first time in the history of the British Empire, science is 

 coming into her own. It is no doubt humiliating to have 

 to confess that it was the misapplied science of our enemies 

 which demonstrated to us how inferior was the place we 

 had given science in our own national life. The land that 

 produced Roger Bacon, Napier, Gilbert, Harvey, Newton, 

 James Watt, Jenner, Faraday, Darwin, Kelvin, and Lister 

 had to be shown by the exponents of science prostituted 

 that science was nevertheless worth cultivating for its own' 

 sake. 



Possibly nothing less terrific than this irruption of Teutonic 



