PROCEEDINGS FOR 1904 XIII 



The following report from Sections I and IT in joint session was 

 presented by Kev. Dr. Bryce, chairman of Section II ; 



Eesolved by joint agreement between Sections I and II, that 

 Sections I and II agree to report to the Council that it is suggested that 

 the Society memorialize the Dominion Government in favour of the 

 introduction of legislation fçr the preservation of historical monuments, 

 sites, and buildings, as far as possible similar in principle to that in 

 Great Britain and France, and with the consent of the proprietors, 

 whether private persons or provincial authorities. 



The following report was presented from Section III : 



Report of Section III. 



1. This Section having considered a letter from the Secretary ot 

 the National Electric Congress asking the Eoyal Society of 

 Canada to appoint representatives to the International Electric Con- 

 gress to be held at St. Louis in September, resolved to recommend that 

 Prof. W. Lash Miller, of the University of Toronto, and Prof. Howard 

 T. Barnes, of McGill University, be appointed as the representatives of 

 the Society to the aforesaid convention. 



2. In reply to the request of the American Society of Civil En- 

 gineers, it was resolved to recommend to the general meeting that the 

 Royal Society should contribute a copy of the Proceedings of the Society 

 to be placed in the reading rooms of the Liberal Arts Building during 

 the months in which the St. Louis Exposition is open. 



3. The Section requests the general meeting to re-appoint the com- 

 mittee, consisting of Prof. C. H. McLeod, Sir Sandford Fleming, Dr. 

 H. T. Bovey, Mr. T. C. Keefer and Capt. E. Deville, named at the 

 Toronto meeting (1902), to urge upon the Government the importance 

 of a general triangulation and geodetic survey for Canada. 



4. The Section requests the re-appointment of the committee, con- 

 sisting of the President of the Society, Sir Sandford Fleming, Mr. T. 

 C. Keefer, Dr. Loudon, Dr. Bovey, Professor McLeod and Dr. Johnson 

 (convener), with power to add, to represent to the Minister of Marine 

 and the Government of Canada the importance of the establishment 

 of a hydrographie survey for Canada in accordance with the accompany- 

 ing proposed resolution. 



C. H. McLeod, 



Acting Secretary. 



It v\-as then moved by Dr. Alex. Johnson, seconded by Sir Sandford 

 Fleming, and carried: 



That the Pioyal Society of Canada recognizes with great satisfaction 



