ANNUAL ADDRESS. XVII. 



taken for the training of the architects of the future, the 

 average of building can ever rise beyond the mediocre. 

 At present it is greatly to be regretted that, side by side 

 with buildings in the city evidencing the skill, taste and 

 power of initiative of the designer, huge structures are 

 erected — their very size making them monumental — 

 which transgress almost every canon of art, architecture, 

 and engineering. 



While referring to matters architectural it will not be 

 out of place to incidentally record the admiration which 

 everyone interested in technical subjects must feel for the 

 enterprise, no less than the skill evidenced by our confreres 

 of the Institute of Architects in publishing their bi-monthly 

 journal "Art and Architecture." Not only for its matter 

 and illustrations, but even as an example of the printer's 

 and publisher's art, it merits nothing but praise. One 

 cannot but hope that it will have an increasingly liberal 

 support, not merely from professional men, but from the 

 general public. 



SURVEYING. 



Another subject to which I am glad to see attention has 

 several times of late been drawn, is that of instruction in 

 surveying. This is a subject which peculiarly lends 

 itself to systematic instruction such as may be organised 

 in an engineering college, and it is hard to see that anything 

 but good could result from the organisation of a complete 

 course of training in that subject at the University. It is 

 not of course possible to produce by any such curriculum a 

 professional expert in surveying any more than in any other 

 subject. Some subsequent experience would of course be 

 necessary, but the naturally haphazard instruction obtained 

 during pupilage has even less to recommend it in the case 

 of so precise a subject as surveying than in engineering or 

 architecture. 



2-June28, 1905. 



