XXXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Report of Section III. 
The Third Section held five meetings, the following members being 
in attendance :—Prof. Baker, Dr. Bovey, Prof. Cox, Dr. Ellis, Sir S. 
Fleming, Dr. Girdwood, Dr. Goodwin, Dr. Harrington, Dr. Johnson, 
President Loudon, Mr. McGill, Prof. McLeod, Prof. Metzler, Dr. Lash 
Miller, Dr. Ruttan, Prof. Rutherford, Mr. Shutt, Mr. Stupart, and Dr. 
Walker. The President of the section, Dr. Ruttan, occupied the chair. 
In addition to the President’s address, on “ Dalton and the Theory 
of Atoms,” thirty-four papers were read before the section, and the 
members and a number of visitors took part in an animated debate on 
“ The existence of Particles smaller than Atoms.” Well-attended excur- 
sions to the new power plant at Niagara Falls, and to the interglacial 
deposits east of Scarborough, diversified the proceedings. 
The following resolutions were carried and referred to the Society 
for action :— 
That this Society highly appreciates the work done by the Gov- 
ernment for the benefit of navigation through the Tidal Survey Depart- 
ment. It would at the same time respectfully represent that a further 
and speedy extension of the work is of the highest practical import- 
ance to shipping. Further, it would renew its representations in 
favour of the establishment under the Minister of Marine of a Hydro- 
graphic Survey Department similar to those found necessary by other 
maritime countries. 
That this section requests the Society to appoint a committee 
for the purpose of ascertaining what action, if any, the Government of 
Canada is willing to take in the direction of extending the triangulation 
systems of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey into this coun- 
try, as urged by the Royal Society in a memorial presented to the Gover- 
nor-General-in-Council in the year 1899; and to again urge the impor- 
tance of the work. The section suggests the following committee for the 
purpose: The President of the Society, Sir Sandford Fleming, Mr. T. C. 
Keefer, Captain Deville, Dr. H. T. Bovey, and Prof. C. H. McLeod 
(Convener). 
That this section requests the Council to recommend the election 
of Professor M. Berthelot, of Paris, as corresponding member of the 
Royal Society of Canada. 
Professor H. T. Barnes, of Montreal, and Dr. J. C. Glashan, of 
Ottawa, were unanimously elected members of the section ; and Prof. 
Baker and Dr. Ruttan were appointed a Committee on Publication. 
