. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. 1852.] THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. (ill, for example, those involved iii tlie professions of the Engineer, tiie Artist, the Surveyor, the Architect, all of them represented by Societies of high standing in Great Britain, and therefore capable in their nature of extending the basis of similar bodies here. It must not be forgotten that until about the year 1810, one greiit Society satisfied almost the entire demand for this species of organization in London itself, we might
. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. 1852.] THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. (ill, for example, those involved iii tlie professions of the Engineer, tiie Artist, the Surveyor, the Architect, all of them represented by Societies of high standing in Great Britain, and therefore capable in their nature of extending the basis of similar bodies here. It must not be forgotten that until about the year 1810, one greiit Society satisfied almost the entire demand for this species of organization in London itself, we might almost say Great Britain, for the local societies were few in number and limited in character. The Geological Society, (1807;) the Astro- nomical Society, (1820 ;) the Asiatic Society, (1824 ;) the Geographical Society, (1831 ;) and a host more, are of very modern foundation ; it would seem, therefore, that no such limitation of object has the sanction of previous experiment, and we may hope that an attempt to unite under one roof, and in one organization a full representation of the acti\-e mind of the community, may be more fortunate. It is unhappily true that the great prominence given to classical learning in England, and ia all education framed on her models, has led to a surprising want of either knowledge of, or interest in, physical or mathema- tical science in English Society generally; which is best attested by the almost incredibly limited sale of scientific books and peri- odicals: it must be therefore expected that an English Colony will yield, at fii-st, but a slender harvest of scientific results, whether of the nature of observation, experiment, or reasoning, and furnish but a small number of minds imbued with those tastes which produce them ; but there is a fund of practical knowlalge and thought, a wisdom of the workshop, the field, and the looin, in every community, which deserves, while it does not claim the honours of science. It is to this also that the C
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