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Council of eleven men representative of the scientific and industrial 
interests of Canada. No details of the work of the Council are available. 
SOUTH AFRICA. 
Towards the end of 1915 the South African Government appointed a 
Government Munitions and Industries Committee, the members beinsr 
entirely business men ; but the work of this committee by no means 
covered the whole field of industrial research. In October, 1916, an 
Industries Advisory Board, with a wider scope, was established, together 
with a Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of ten members, 
whose functions are similar to those of the original British Advisory Council. 
The Committee has begun its work by instituting a general survey of the 
position in the Union under forty-eight special headings, covering a wide 
range of natural and manufactured products of South Africa, each portion 
of the “ survey ” being entrusted to a scientific or technical expert as 
reporter. 
NEW ZEALAND. 
New Zealand alone among the larger self-governing Dominions is in 
the unenviable position of having created no special organization for the 
co-ordination of scientific and industrial research, although funds to the 
amount of £250 in 1916-17 and £1,250 in 1917-18 have been voted and 
are being spent in this direction. The report under review contains the 
recommendations made by various bodies which considered the subject 
up to October, 1917, and should be consulted by those specially interested. 
The present position is that a special committee of the New Zealand 
Institute has prepared a scheme at the request of the National Efficiency 
Board, which has been adopted by that Board with certain modifications, 
and is now under consideration by Cabinet. 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
Certain aspects of scientific and industrial research in America are 
referred to in subsequent reviews. Less Government machinery for organ¬ 
ization has proved necessary than in British communities, and the National 
Kesearch Council, founded with thirty-seven members in 1916, has dealt 
as much with military and naval as with industrial problems, although the 
latter are not neglected. 
J. A. T. 
Industrial Research in the United States of America, by A. P. M. Fleming, 
Science and Industry, No. 1, 60 pp., 85 plates, London, 1917. 
Science and Industry, described as a series of papers bearing on industrial 
research, is issued by the British Department of Scientific and Industrial 
Research, and this paper commences the series. The author travelled in 
America for the British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 
and through the courtesy of that company extended his paper into the 
present form. 
Industrial research in the United States may be classified according to 
whether it is undertaken by— 
Manufacturing corporations. National institutions. 
Associations of manufacturers. Commercial laboratories. 
Universities and colleges. Scientific societies. 
