EDITORIAL. 
and the consideration of the machinery to give effect to the new classifi- 
cation lists. The members of the Central Committee are as follow :— 
Mr. Robert Cochrane, representing the Victorian Chamber of 
Commerce; Mr. S. W. B. McGregor, British Trade Commis- 
sioner; Mr. E. T. McPhee, Commonwealth Statistical Bureau; 
Mr. R. A. Pryor, representing the Victorian Chamber of 
Manufactures; Mr. A. B. Piddington, Chief Inter-State 
Commissioner; Mr. Stirling Taylor, Director, Bureau of 
Commerce and Industry; Dr. F. M. Gellatly, Director, Insti- 
tute of Science and Industry; and Mr. G. Lightfoot, Secretary, 
Institute of Science and Industry. 
SIMILAR MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. 8. W. B. McGregor, British Trade 
Uommissioner, we have received a copy of a communication addressed 
to the Federation of British Industries, which makes it clear that a 
movement in the direction of reclassification of trade statistical 
returns is afoot. This will apply both to import and export 
statistics of the United Kingdom, as contained in the Monthly and 
Annual Statements of Trade. It appears to the Board that the present 
is a fitting opportunity to make such changes as may appear necessary 
in order to increase the utility of these statistics to the commercial and 
industrial community. : 
CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL 
RESEARCH. 
. This Council, which was established in 1916, has already accom- 
plished a considerable amount of useful work. It has recently branched 
out in a new direction, which is likely to have an important bearing on 
the development of industrial research. It has instituted studentships 
and fellowships for scientific and industrial research at the Universities 
in the Dominion. The studentships, which are post-graduate, and are 
open to both men and women, are intended for those who have given 
distinct evidence of capacity for original research, to enable them to 
continue the prosecution of science with the view to aiding its advance 
or its application to the industries of the country. The principal work 
of the holder of a studentship must be a research in some branch of 
science the extension of which is important to the national industries, 
and the departments of science in which capacity for reseach will be 
accepted as qualifying for a studentship are: Biology (economic), 
chemistry, engineering, geology, metallurgy, mineralogy, and physics. 
The studentships are of the value of £120 for the first year, and £150 
for the second year. ‘The research fellowships are only awarded to those 
who, either through previous tenure of a studentship, or otherwise, have 
shown a high capacity for research on some problem the extension of 
which is of importance to the national industries of Canada. They are 
of the value of £200 for the first year, and of £240 for the second year, 
if the Advisory Council should decide to extend the fellowship over two 
years. 
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