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tables. The committee desire to express their concurrence in Mr. 

 Sandford Fleming's views as to the advantages which would result from 

 this reform, and the ease with which it could be carried out. (2) That it 

 would be advisable that a similar recommendation should be forwarded 

 to the Indian Government, and that the adoption of the 24-hour notation 

 for railway time-tables (which they understand has been adopted on 

 several lines in India) should be recommended to the railway companies 

 of the United Kingdom." 



The Secretary was instructed to write to the Governor-General and 

 call attention to the circumstance that the circular is directed to the 

 colonies only, and request that the attention of foreign nations be directed 

 to the circular. 



A letter was read from Sir Daniel Wilson, stating that Dr. Sandford 

 Fleming, having failed in his arrangements with The Canada Life Assur- 

 ance Company to place the sum for which his life was insured at the 

 immediate service of The Canadian Institute, had sent his cheque for 

 $200, and proposed to pay the same amount annually as interest on the 

 capital sum. 



Moved by Professor Loudon, seconded by Dr. Kennedy, and carried, 



" That the Canadian Institute has once more to acknowledge the inter- 

 est and appreciate the kindness of one of its earliest and most distinguished 

 members, Sandford Fleming, C.E., LL.D., C.M.G., who, during the whole 

 period of his connection with it, has shown a deep and unflagging interest 

 in all that concerns its welfare and prosperity, and who has ever been 

 foremost in all movements pertaining to the advancement and extension 

 of the work of the Institute. In addition to his generous provision of a 

 paid-up policy of life insurance for the sum of $4,000 towards the funds 

 of the Institute, he has given further evidence of his kindness in desiring 

 to pay to the Institute yearly the interest on the above sum. Wherefore 

 be it resolved that the best thanks of the Institute be tendered to Dr. 

 Sandford Fleming for this fresh token of his interest in the Institute, that 

 a copy of this resolution be sent to him." 



Dr. A. B. Macallum read a Paper entitled " Studies on the origin of 

 the Blood Pigment." The results given in the paper were obtained from 

 an investigation extending over several years. The main points of the 

 paper on the structure of the cell nucleus and of the compounds which 

 it contains may be summarized as follows : — One of the nuclear com- 

 pounds, the substance chromatin, so called because of its capacity for 

 absorbing staining reagents, and confused by the chemist and biologist 

 with a derivative of it, nuclein, constitutes the fundamental life substance 



