PROCEEDINGS FOR 1915 XXI 



Canadien." The address was listened to attentively by the audience, 

 and at the close of the lecture His Royal Highness graciously addressed 

 the meeting and spoke in complimentary terms of the work of the 

 Society. 



SESSION n.— (Wednesday, May 26). 



The President took the chair at 12 o'clock. 



It was moved by Dr. Adams, seconded by Dr. Tory, that the 

 Report of Council be adopted. — Carried. 



Dr. Charles David White, of the United States Geological and 

 the National Museum, Washington, D.C., whose nomination as a 

 corresponding member of Section IV had been submitted to the 

 meeting, was declared elected. 



Dr. Otto Klotz's notice of motion for the amendment of the 

 By-laws which read as follows: — "That Section 8, Paragraph 3, 

 of the By-laws be amended by substituting for the words "without 

 presenting a paper" the following: — "and who has not contributed 

 a paper of his own during that time," had been distributed among 

 the Fellows and Dr. Klotz now moved, seconded by Professor Wrong, 

 that it be approved. 



After considerable discussion the matter was left over for further 

 consideration. 



The Report of the Committee appointed in 1914 to obtain full 

 information as to the dangers to life arising from the presence of 

 carbon monoxide in ordinary illuminating gas was presented for 

 Dr. Girdwood, chairman, by Dr. Ruttan. The report was as follows: — 



Mr. President and Fellows of The Royal Society: 

 Gentlemen, 



At the last meeting of this Society held in Montreal, in the month 

 of May last, you did us the honour of appointing us a committee for 

 the purpose of collecting information upon the use of water gas in il- 

 luminating gas. We thank you for that honour, and now have plea- 

 sure in submitting our report as follows. 



The conditions of war in Europe have so interfered with postal 

 arrangements that we have been unable to obtain any information from 

 the Continent of Europe, and the information we have been able to 

 obtain has been from the United Kingdom, the United States and 

 Canada. 



Throughout Great Britain in the early part of the last century 

 coal gas was introduced as a means for lighting the houses and 

 streets. The gas originally used was made by the distillation of soft 

 coal, of which material an ample supply was obtainable. "^f ^ 



