XVlll PROCEEDINGS. 



cals the export of which from Britain was prohibited. The 

 restrictions are gradually being removed, first in favor of 

 British Colonies and protectorates and of our allies, and 

 later in favor of other countries excepting, of course, our 

 enemies; and Britain is now exporting many of these goods 

 and chemicals necessary to science and the industrial arts 

 which hitherto she had never manufactured. To cope with 

 the dye situation the British Government has endeavored 

 to start a national dye industry. 



A committee of the Institute of Chemistry has published 

 formulae for glasses, from resistance-glass necessary for 

 chemical apparatus, and hard glass, to the soft glass used 

 for X-ray tubes; and the production of optical glass is being 

 actively pushed. We are now able to obtain from England 

 filter paper of high-grade quality equal to the best foreign 

 make. 



in the United States the Senate called for a report on 

 the dye situation, and another investigation has been called 

 for. Many concerns are taking up manufacture of dyes, 

 chemicals, and glassware. That country can obtain the 

 crude materials necessary for aniline dyes as bye products 

 from the coke ovens, of a prospective annual value of 

 $100,000,000 wasted hitherto. 



Not only have British scientists aided the industries 

 but by committees and boards of invention and research 

 they are giving valuable assistance to the various branches 

 of the Army and Navy in the conduct of the war. 



It was brought home to the British Government (as 

 expressed by various pleaders) that the factors in industrial 

 progress were "organization and research", and that "scien- 

 tific research work carried out in the laboratory is the soul 

 of industrial prosperity." In our own country of Canada 

 there has been some appreciation of science by our Provincial 

 and Federal Governments as witness our Experimental 

 Farms, the Geological Survey, etc.; but as an index of where 



