PROCEEDINGS FOR 1916 XXIII 
and by the Section at the Annual Meeting of the previous year, shall 
select from the list of candidates nominated to the Section, a number 
equivalent to that which the Section is entitled to elect to membership 
for that year, to be recommended for election. 
The Honorary Secretary shall, on or before the first day of March, 
forward to the members of the Section a printed ballot containing 
the names of the candidates so recommended for election, and with 
space on the ballot opposite each name for the name of any other 
candidate nominated, for whom a member may desire to vote, instead 
of for the one recommended. 
Each ballot, signed with the name of the member and with such 
erasures of names and the substitution of others, as each member may 
individually make, may be returned on or before the first of April 
to the Honorary Secretary, who shall report to Council at a meeting 
to be held before the Annual Meeting the number of votes obtained 
by each candidate. Should any of these have obtained a majority 
of the votes cast by the Section, the Council shall so report to the 
Society at the next Annual Meeting, and the election shall then be 
confirmed by the Society. 
It was moved by His Grace Archbishop Bruchesi and seconded 
by Sir William Peterson, that the Society endorse the views expressed 
by the President in his address,—that in the schools of the Dominion 
increased attention be paid to the study of French language and 
French literature.—Carried. 
Dr. R. F. Ruttan then communicated to the meeting a further 
report of the committee appointed to study the question of Carbon 
Monoxide in Illuminating Gas, as follows:— 
To the President and Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada: 
Your committee appointed to study the question of carbon 
monoxide in illuminating gas, has had several meetings during the 
year; one of the members, Dr. J. J. MacKenzie, who is now serving 
in Salonika with the No. 4 University Base Hospital, was absent 
during the year. Owing to the disturbed conditions caused by the 
war, no information regarding the laws controlling carbon monoxide 
in illuminating gas has been obtainable from any of the countries 
on the continent of Europe where such legal control exists. 
The Registrar General of Great Britain in reply to an enquiry 
furnished us with a tabulated statement of deaths from accident 
and suicide due to coal-gas and carbon monoxide. The total deaths 
recorded in 1913 from gas poison were 241, of which 77 were accidental 
161 suicidal, and 3 homocidal. 
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