NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 
lington, and the new up-town York Club, on the cor- 
ner of Bloor and St. George, are recognized as pre- 
eminent. The Albany, the Reform and the National 
have political leanings, although the last has lost 
much of its original significance. The Canadian and 
Empire are luncheon clubs, meeting weekly and lis- 
tening to addresses from distinguished men, usually 
strangers, on topics of the hour. They indicate the 
growing intellectual interests of the community and 
the rising tide of Canadian sentiment. The most 
interesting historically of these luncheon clubs is the 
U. E. L. Association, the descendants of the United 
Empire Loyalists, who meet annually to celebrate the 
coming of their ancestors to Canada. Scientific sub- 
jects are dealt with by the Royal Astronomical So- 
ciety, the Folklore Society, the Canadian Historical 
Society, and the Canadian Institute. The Institute 
has a home of its own on College Street, south of the 
University Chemistry building, with a good scientific 
reading-room and the best collection of Transactions 
of learned societies in Canada. It was founded as 
an engineering and scientific club in the year 1851, 
and its own publications illustrate in a very interest- 
ing manner the changes and developments in the 
methods of research during the last two generations. 
But though often called the city of colleges, the 
interests of Toronto are essentially commercial and 
manufacturing. Even here, however, the printing 
and publishing trade holds a record. Toronto is said 
to be the fifth city on the continent in this line, being 
surpassed only by New York, Boston, Chicago and 
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