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cellent and appropriate address which he delivered on their behalf. 
A resolution to this effect is suggested. 
Inasmuch as the Society, by sending a delegate, participated in 
the celebration, it may be of interest to state that other Canadian 
institutions which did so were: the University of New Brunswick— 
delegate, C. C. Jones, Chancellor; Queen’s University, Kingston— 
delegate, Prof. N. F. Dupuis, F.R.S.C.; McGill University, Montreal 
—delegate, Prof. E. W. McBride, F.RS.C.; University of Toronto— 
delegates, President R. A. Falconer and Prof. T. G. Brodie; University 
of Manitoba—delegate, Prof. A. H. R. Buller, F.R.S.C. 
It may, perhaps, not be out of place to quote a reference made 
to this celebration in the presidential address delivered to the Royal 
Physical Society of Edinburgh on the 25th October, 1909, by Prof. 
J. Graham Kerr, of Glasgow University:—“The occasion has been 
marked by celebrations all over the world, and the greatest of these, 
that at Cambridge, was one which will never be forgotten by anyone 
who was privileged to take part in it. Probably never in the history 
of human knowledge has there been gathered together such an assem- 
blage to do honour to the memory of any one purely intellectual 
worker.” 
9.—PROPOSAL TO CREATE NEW SECTIONS. 
A committee was appointed at our last meeting to consider a motion 
made for the creation of a Fifth Section of the Society, to be called “The 
Section of Social Science and Economics.” To this committee was 
referred a letter from Dr. T. Wesley Mills raising strong objection to a 
proposal previously made for the subdivision of Section IV by which the 
Geological would be separated from the Biological sciences. The com- 
mittee has therefore considered the general question of the creation of 
new Sections, and a report will be presented at this meeting by the 
Secretary, Mr. Errol Bouchette. 
10.—SEWAGE POLLUTION OF RIVERS AND STREAMS. 
In the report of Section III last year it was requested that the 
Society should memorialize the Dominion Government and suggest in- 
vestigation as to the possibility of adopting legal measures to preserve 
the waterways of the country from contamination by the sewage of 
cities, towns and villages, and of vessels navigating our rivers. No 
action in this direction was taken by the Council, partly for the reason 
that a bill was introduced in Parliament last session to amend the Act 
respecting the Protection of Navigable Waters, with a view to accom- 
plishing, to a certain extent at least, the object aimed at in the 
resolution. The bill referred to was not passed; but the subject 
