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fixed international calendar, and instructing the permanent committee 
“to instigate one of the Governments to convoke an official diplomatic 
conference with a view to bringing about a fixed date for Easter and a 
reform of the calendar.” The question now is, what action, if any, 
should be taken by this Society in the matter. 
13.—CoLLECTION OF NUMERICAL DATA AND PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AS 
Arps TO RESEARCH. 
A communication was received in the month of April last from 
the Department of Agriculture, transmitting copy of a circular letter 
addressed by the British Foreign Office to the Colonial Office, and 
of a letter from the Colonial Secretary to the Governor General of 
Canada, respecting a resolution agreed to at the meeting of the Con- 
gress of Applied Chemistry in London in the month of June, 1909, 
authori’ ing the formation of an International Commission for the col- 
lection and publication of Physical-Chemical constants. This matter 
was referred by the Honorary Secretary to Section III, and will doubt- 
less receive the attention of that Section. 
14.—Moscow SOoCIETY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL 
ScIENCES AND THEIR PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. 
The Society has also been apprised of the formation, by means of 
a liberal private bequest, of a society at Moscow, Russia, in connection 
with the Imperial Moscow University, the objects of which are declared 
to be: 
1. To assist discoveries and experiments in connection with Natural 
Science. 
2. To develop technical inventions and improvements. 
3. To investigate and apply to practical use any scientific or tech- 
nical discovery or improvement. 
The advantages of the Society do not appear to be subject to any 
national restrictions whatever. It appears rather to be one of those 
institutions aiming at a world-wide diffusion of their benefits which do 
honour to the present age. 
15.—ZOOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MARITIME LABORATORY AT 
CONCARNEAU, FRANCE. 
The Director of the “Laboratoire et de Physiologie Maritimes de 
Concarneau” in the Department of Finistère, France, in acknowledging 
a copy of the Transactions of the Society, writes: “Je vous prie de 
