90 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Having regard to the interests that are at stake, to the desirability 

 of eftecting the suggested reform and to the brevity of the period within 

 which the movement may be discussed with a view to its adoption by 

 1897, and to its introduction into actual use in 1001, this society would 

 commend to the favourable consideration of the Eoj^al Society', represent- 

 ing, as it does, all that is influential in Literature and Science in Canada, 

 any proposition that may be laid before it, and would ask that it lend the 

 Aveight of its name to the promotion of a proposition fraught with so 

 much of good to a vast bodj' of men engaged in the commerce and the 

 defence of the nations to whose attention, through their governments, 

 the subject has now been brought. 



