PROCEEDINGS FOR 1911 XI 
government in the Province of Nova Scotia, in the year 1758. Your 
Council have watched the advancement of this work with much interest, 
and are glad to be able to state that building operations are in rapid 
progress and will be brought to completion in the course of a few months. 
As has been previously mentioned, the interest taken in the erection of 
this important historical monument has been very widely extended; 
and it has lately taken the form of the contribution by different colonies, 
provinces, cities and institutions, of stone tablets suitably inscribed 
for the decoration of the interior of the structure. These tablets, of 
which there will probably be about thirty in all, bear some character- 
istic device (arms, motto, etc.), and your Council would strongly 
recommend that The Royal Society of Canada, representative as it is 
of the whole of British North America, should not lose the opportunity 
of testifying in this way its interest in a great historic work, and of 
placing itself on record in a monument which may be expected to endure 
for centuries. The Council would respectfully suggest the adoption 
of a resolution authorizing the necessary expenditure for this desirable 
object. 
VIII. REFORM OF THE CALENDAR AND STANDARD TIME. 
With respect to the various schemes which have been brought to the 
notice of the Society from time to time for the Reform of the Calendar, 
it was left to the Council to take such action as they might think ad- 
visable as regards approaching the Dominion government on the sub- 
ject. The matter is receiving much attention in Europe, and the prob- 
ability seems to be that, in due course, the question will commend itself 
to the careful consideration of some of the leading governments of the 
world as one of undoubted practical interest. It did not, however, 
seem to your Council either necessary or opportune to draw the atten- 
tion of the Canadian government to the subject, inasmuch as the 
matter had not been studied by any special committee of the Society, 
and the Council were therefore not in a position to recommend any 
one scheme in particular. 
It is satisfactory, however, to know that the minor, and yet 
highly important reform, known as Standard Time, which it will always 
be a matter of pride with this Society to connect with the name of 
one of its charter members, Sir Sandford Fleming, has, since we last met, 
made a most important advance. We refer to its introduction in France 
and the adoption therewith of Greenwich time. It seems proper to 
put on record here some observations made by the London Times 
in its issue of the 13th of March, 1911, on this subject. “The adoption,” 
says that journal, “in due course of Greenwich time by France became 
inevitable as soon as the leading nations of Europe and the West began 
