SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
and with such ample accommodation and equipment for research as the 
most progressive aspirations of Canadian industry may require. The 
imperative need of Canadian industries applying the most advanced 
technical and scientific knowledge derived from research to their problems 
of raw materials and industrial processes is pointed out, and the lesson 
enforced by showing the immense sums being spent in the United States 
and England along these lines. 
_ The War being now over, the Hydrogen Committee, formed at 
the instigation of the Imperial authorities, has been dissolved. 
At the request of the Motor Traders Association of South Australia, 
a mechanic has been sent from Melbourne to Adelaide to instruct members 
how to alter their engines to enable them to use alcohol. 
A Bulletin on “The Prickly Pear in Australia,” by Mr. W. B 
Alexander, M.A., has been published by the Institute. 
An Inter-State Conference of engineers and others interested, to 
consider the advisableness of standardizing railway rails and fish-plates, 
has been convened for 30th June, at the offices of the Institute, in 
Melbourne. 
A similar Conference, to deal with the standardization of tram rails, 
has been called for 4th August, at the same place. 
Under the will of the late T. W. Adams, Canterbury College receives 
a gift of land valued at over £2,000 for the establishment of a school of 
forestry. 
Those seeking information are invited to visit the scientific and 
technical library of the Institute, at Danks Buildings, Bourke-street, 
Melbourne. 
It is hoped that before long similar libraries will be established in 
the other capitals. 
The Director recently visited New South Wales and Queensland in 
connexion with the affairs of the Institute. 
