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reform of our waterways was within practical politics. It was owing to the canal system of 
Germany and her system of low freight charges that chemical manufacturers in Berlin could 
import and distribute certain goods cheaper than manufacturers in Manchester. The freight 
from Liverpool to Manchester (31 miles) was twice as great as from Hamburg to Berlin (174) 
for about one-sixth the distance. The author showed how gravely English freight charges 
affected cost of production and distribution in this country. It cost more to send cheese from 
Cheshire than from New York to London, and more to send cattle from Northumberland 
than from Chicago to Liverpool. 
The question of education was one of vital importance ; but let them be quite clear on 
one point, the burning question for trade and industry was neither the question of primary 
education, which was fairly satisfactory, nor that of higher technical or commercial 
education, but the question of efficient non-specialized secondary education. He doubted 
if the new Bill would or could provide what was wanted. The financial provision 
for new secondary schools was totally inadequate if we wished to place England on a level 
with Germany in this matter. Schools alone would not suffice — we must be able to induce 
parents to keep the boys at school till 16 or iS, and we must spend large amounts in scholar- 
ships if we were to induce a sufficient number of parents to let their boys remain at school 
till 18 and so to obtain trained brains comparable in number and capacity with those of 
Germany. The millions of money spent on technical education in this country had been in 
the main sadly wasted. Education was a matter of time, but there was one reform that 
would promptly have a great and beneficial effect on our national industries — the reform of 
our patent laws. Our patent legislation simply offered a bonus to foreign rivals to manu- 
facture abroad the articles for which we had granted British monopolies. 
Mr. E. K. Mustratt, in the absence of the president, presented the society’s medal to 
Dr. Swan, and gave a sketch of the valuable work he had accomplished in connection with 
electrical engineering and chemical industry. Mr. George Beilby was appointed a 
representative on the governing body of the Imperial Institute. On the invitation of the 
Yorkshire section, it was decided to hold next year’s meeting at Bradford. 
CHARTS AND PLANS. 
Published by the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty , during May and June , 1902; 
J. D. PoTTER, Agent, 145, Minories, London, E. C. 
Nt. New Charts. 
3227 to 3238 Atlas of monthly wind charts for coasts of South America. 
1344 North Atlantic. Tidal streams amongst the Faeroe islands. 
325S England, east coast. River Tyne, Jarrow Slake to Elswick. 
2669 The Channel islands and adjacent coast of France. 
2644 France, north coast : — He d’Ouessant to Plateau des Roches Douvres. 
3264 Newfoundland, south coast : — St. Mary's harbour and adjacent approaches. 
3263 Newfoundland, south coast : — Salmonier river and Colinet harbour. 
3266 Newfoundland, south coast : — Long harbour and St. Croix bay and adjacent anchorages. 
3257 Canada. Lake Huron :• — Chantry island to Cove island. 
3253 South America, west coast Plans on the coast of Chile. 
3268 Central America, west coast : — Panama road. 
3271 Vancouver island and British Columbia, Plans in Broughton and Johnstone straits 
Alert and Blinkinsop bays. 
625 Africa, west coast : — River Congo. 
3232 Central Africa : — Victoria Nyanza (northern portion). 
3255 Central Africa. Victoria Nyanza : — Entebbe bay. 
3256 Central Africa. Victoria Nyanza : — Port Florence. 
3267 Plans on the west coast of India : — St. Mary isles. Mangalore harbour, 
976 Philippine islands : — Manila bay. Plan added. Port of Manila. 
3283 Philippine islands, west coast : — Ports Salomague and Sual. 
3274 China. Upper Yang tse kiang. Tung ting lake and Siaug river, 
3224 Japan, Kiusiu, north coast : — Iki island. 
1596 Harbours and anchorages on the coast of Italy. Plans added : — Port Salerno. Port Torre 
del Greco. 
1292 South America, east coast. Plan added : — Atlas anchorage, 
632 Africa, west coast. New plan : — Angra Pequena. 
934 Eastern archipelago. New plan : — Ketapang bay. 
3131 Anchorages in New Hebrides islands. Plans added : Talomaco and De la table 
anchorages. Requin bay. 
Charts that have received additions or corrections too large to be conveniently inserted by hand, and 
in most cases other than those referred to in the Admiralty Notices to Mariners. 

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT. 
CORRESPONDENCE AND ENQUIRIES. 
tS~Tke following are given as specimens of some of the enquiries which have been addressed to, 
and satisfactorily answered by, the Institute during the past month (July). 
*** All communications must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer. Enquiries 
which would involve special applications or expense will be a matter of arrangement with 
the correspondent. 
T. B., Liverpool. — General information on Australia and Cape Colony. 
H. D., Huddersfield. — Names of fancy stationery firms. 
E, A. C., Herts. — Brewing industry of Cape Colony. 
S. & Co,, London. — Duty on linoleum in Egypt. 
Verbal,— Importers of bamboo. 
,, Sources of information on the subject of the world's timber resources. 
No. 
2793 England, south coast : — Cowes har- 
bour. 
3129 White sea : — Yugorski strait. 
2297 Baltic sea. Gulf of Bothnia, sheet 
ii : — Hango head to South Quarken. 
2298 Baltic sea. Gulf of Bothnia : — Nystad 
light to Stor Fiard. 
185 Germany, north coast : — Port Swine- 
miinde and approaches to Stettin. 
1506 France, south coast Port and road- 
stead of port Vendres. 
2471 United States, east coast : — New Lon- 
don harbour. 
2854 Harbours in the gulf of Mexico : — Vera 
Cruz. 
1938 South America, east coast : — River 
Uruguay. 
553 South America, east coast : — Cape Dos 
Bahias to Tova island. 
2885 United States, west coast : — San Diego 
bay, etc. 
2839 United States, west coast : — Columbia 
river. 
No. 
1456 Africa, west coast : — River Cameroon 
with Ambas islands. 
705 Madagascar : — Pasindava bay to Nosi 
Shaba. 
746 India, west coast, sheet ix.: — Mulki 
to mount Dilli. 
69 Ceylon : — Pam bam pass. 
755 Bay of Bengal : — False point anchor- 
age, etc. 
9422 Eastern archipelago, eastern portion, 
including Flores, Banda, and Ara- 
fura seas. 
2636 Philippine islands : — Strait of Ma- 
kassar, north part. 
1258 Korea: — Approaches to Seoul, etc. 
532 Japan : — Simonoseki strait. 
1041 Kamchatka : — Avatcha, outer bay. 
1670^ Australia, east coast Moreton bay, 
sheet 2. 
2422 Australia: — Torres strait, N.E, and 
east entrances, with outlying reefs. 

REQUIREMENTS REGISTRY. 
In order to provide correspondents with an opportunity of making known special "wants” 
or "needs" in the British Colonies, India, and Foreign Countries, space will be regularly 
devoted to the publication of approved notices in the Imperial Institute Journal. Notices, 
as a rule, should not exceed 25 words in length, for which a charge of 2s. 6d. will be made for 
each insertion. Special arrangements can be made for longer notices. 
Specimens of Foreign and Colonial Woods desired. Purchase or 
exchange. Names and localities must be well authenticated. Address — 
Herbert Stone, Bracebridge-street, Birmingham. 
The Curator of the Canadian Section of the Imperial Institute is prepared to 
furnish information about Canadian Trade and to supply names of importers, manufacturers, 
shippers, etc. 
The following trade enquiries have been received at the Canadian Section of the Imperial 
Institute, from the Curator of which Section further particulars may be obtained : — ■ 
Home Enquiries. — A firm possessing offices in London and Montreal, and able to furnish 
first-class references, is prepared to act as Canadian agents for manufacturers of 
machinery, engineering and similar classes of goods. 
A north country firm asks for the names and addresses of exporters of Canadian iron 01 es. 
Canadian Enquiries. — A Canadian firm of printers wishes to be placed in communication 
with Linked Kingdom makers of calendar backs, who can supply large variety of designs, 
A New Bimnswick firm manufacturing birch, beech, maple and ash to specification for the 
production of spokes, shafts, poles, and other carriage and wagon builders’ appliances, 
desires the addresses of United Kingdom importers of their goods. 
A Canadian company who can furnish good references wishes to hear from United Kingdom 
dealers in druggists’ sundries, such as hair, tooth and hand brushes, combs, drugs and 
novelties, who seek Canadian resident agents. 
MAPS AND CHARTS— RECORDS. 
[The entire collection of maps (with the exception of a few atlases and maps issued by private 
firms) consists of authoritative publications of the various government cartographical departments. 
Such as : the One-inch Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, a complete set of Admiralty 
Charts, and a selection from the maps compiled in the Intelligence Division of the War Office; 
the monumental " Indian Atlas,” and a large number of the publications of the Surveyor-General’s 
Office, Calcutta ; the Geological Survey of Canada, and the Government Surveys of Victoria and 
New South Wales. In the arrangement of the collection, the geographical classification of the 
War Office Intelligence Department catalogue has, with some modifications, been followed.] 
ADDITIONS TO TllE COLLECTION OF MAPS DURING JULY, 1902. 
ASIA. 
India. Survey of India Office, Calcutta. 
Indian Atlas, quarter-sheets, 23 N.W., 76 N.E., 76 S.E., 77 S.W., 86 S.W. 
Western Bengal, sheet No. 9. 
District Monghyr, sheets 5 and 6. 
,, Shahabad. 
Bombay Survey, sheet No. 231. 
Burma Survey, sheet No. 145. 
Central India and Rajputana Survey, sheets Nos. 120, 267, 278, 408, 431. 
Madras Survey, sheet No. 76. 
North-Westf.rn Provinces and Oudh Survey, sheet No. 119. 
North Trans-Frontier, sheet No. 33. 
Sind Survey, sheet No. 9. 
Map of the Soondurbuns. 
Chart of Traverse, sheets Nos. 19, 79. 
Chart of Triangulation and Traverse, sheets Nos. 21, 40, 71. 
Index to the Standard Sheets of the Central Provinces. 
.. ,, ,, .. North-West Provinces and Oudh. 
gi-3<&/n3 
THE CANADIAN TIMBER TRADE. 
A recent issue of the Canadian Lumberman contains the following observations of the 
Canadian timber trade, which appear worth noting. 
To one who fo* the first time travels over the Canadian Pacific Railway between the 
Georgian Bay and the Pacific Coast, the impression is one of surprise regarding the extent 
of the Canadian territory. Some of the land, of course, is barren, but there are yet immense 
areas of fertile soil awaiting cultivation. Much has been done in the past decade towards the 
settlement of Western Canada, as witness the many millions of bushels of wheat that are 
grown annually. But still greater strides towards the development of the country are likely 
to be made during the next ten years. 
The prosperity of the people of the West is exhibiting itself in a desire to provide 
more comfortable homes. Building operations in Manitoba and the Territories are each 
year showing an improvement both in volume and character. 
The importance of the West as a lumber market is more fully recognized to-day than 
ever before. It is a most significant fact that, in the face of adverse circumstances, Canadian 
manufacturers have been able during the past year to greatly limit the amount of lumber 
imported from the United States. The Dominion Government has in many ways shown its 
desire to develop the western country, but still leaves the lumber market open to American 
competition. This market is supplied largely by British Columbia manufacturers, who, 
owing to location, are obliged to import most of their machinery and mill supplies from the 
United States and pay a duty thereon. Their lumber is also taxed when shipped to the 
United States, but the American manufacturer contributed not a cent to the Dominion 
treasury when supplying the Canadian consumer. A readjustment of the tariff law would 
greatly assist the lumber industry of the West. 
The lumber industry of British Columbia continues to grow rapidly. Saw mills with a 
daily capacity of over one hundred thousand feet of lumber, and shingle mills turning out 
daily one million shingles, are sufficient proof of advancement. But a still greater develop- 
ment of the lumber business of the Pacific Coast is looked for, and the time when lumber and 
manufactures of wood from Canadian establishments will be more extensively in demand in 
the markets of South Africa, Australia, China, Japan, and other eastern countries, is fully 
anticipated. The export trade in lumber, as in other commodities, is bound to expand, and 
with the settlement of Manitoba and the Territories which is now taking place at such a rapid 
rate, the lumber industry of the West should become a more important factor in the commerce 
of the Dominion. 
Mr. Harrison Watson, Curator of the Canadian Section of the Imperial Institute, 
in making hisi annual report for 1901, refers as follows to the demand for timber and 
manufactures of wood : — 
“ There continue to reach this office numerous enquiries for the names of Canadian 
mills which can supply such lines as doors, mouldings, flooring, blocks, handles, seats, 
chairstocks, etc., and on the other side application from Canadian manufacturers and shippers 
for information as to demand for above and similar goods over here. These industries appear 
to be gradually developing, but apparently the supply of goods is not increasing in the same 
ratio as the demand, for the usual report of visitors to the Dominion in search of supplies is 
that practically all the concerns which are really in a position to deal with export trade have 
already contracted for all they can possibly produce. There are some lines, such as box 
shooks for example, where competition keeps prices down to levels which would be 
unprofitable to Canadian shippers ; but, on the whole, there would seem to exist a profitable 
field for further investment in the wood-working and turning industry which deserves the 
attention of Canadian capitalists. Attention has already been called to the advantages which 
the maritime Provinces offer for the erection of such establishments where export trade is the 
main consideration, owing to their proximity to European markets and the possession 
of open harbours throughout the year. Merchants on this side often express their 
surprise that more has not been accomplished in this part of the Dominion. Among other 
