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clans, withstood the invasion, and have to this day the tartan plaid kilt 

 and hose of undated epochs. The Puritan violated every line of grace, 

 treading under foot every form of beauty and colour. Under this 

 regime painting and sculpture degenerated. Square cut coats, slouching 

 hats, and ugly boots were declared modest and proper and " pleasing 

 unto God," as though the Creator of all that is beautiful should smile the 

 more upon the violation of His divine laws of grace and colour. 



In conclusion. Mr. Sherwood said often as he looked down the aisles 

 of the church he could not help thinking, as he saw masses of drapery 

 black as night and sombre as the grave, that the effect must be far from 

 cheerful to many weary souls. The temple of God ought to be graced 

 by the richest ranges of colour, being indeed a true counterpart of God's 

 own house, the temple of nature. 



TENTH MEETING. 



Tenth Meeting, 17th January, 1891, the President in the chair. 



Donations and exchanges, 66. 



The following specimens were presented to the Museum : — Trilobite 

 by Mr. McKay; Globigerinae and shells, piece of Labradorite, and 

 Boeothick ornaments by Mr. Harvey. 



The following were elected members : — John Young, G. A. Chase, B.A , 

 Charles Rust, C.E., Robert M. Dennistoun and C. W. Armstrong. 



A letter was read from the Governor-General's secretary, enclosing a 

 despatch received from the Colonial Office relative to a memorandum by 

 Dr. Sandford Fleming, C.M.G., on the " Movement for reckoning time on a 

 scientific basis, by which the greatest possible degree of simplicity, 

 accuracy and uniformity will be obtainable in all countries througliout 

 the world." This memorandum had been transmitted by the Canadian 

 Institute to the Colonial Office, and submitted to the Department of 

 Science and Art, which reported the following resolutions, passed at a 

 meeting of the Committee on the Prime Meridian Conference, held on 

 the 25th April. 1890, there being present — the Astronomer Royal (in 

 the chair), the Hydrographer of the Navy, and General Donnelly, C.B : — 

 " Resolved (i) that it is desirable that Mr. Sandford Fleming's memoran- 

 dum be forwarded to the Governments of all the colonies for their con- 

 sideration, with a view to the adoption of the Hour Zone system in 

 reckoning time generally, and of the 24-hour notation for railway time- 



