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for the purpose of forming the nucleus of an Endowment Fund in the 
hope that it will from time to time be augmented from other sources. 
My wish is that this sum of $5,000 shall be held as a Trust Fund to be 
invested and the interest derivable therefrom to be alone used for special 
and desirable objects. I leave to the Council of the Institute full power 
and authority to direct the special objects to which the derivable income 
may be applied.”’ 
It will be unnecessary here to make more than a passing reference 
to his great services as an engineer to Canada and the Empire in con- 
nection with the Northern Railway, now a part of the Grand Trunk 
System, the Intercolonial Railway, the Newfoundland Railway, the 
Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (for 
it was he that suggested the adoption of the Yellowhead Pass through 
which the last named road traverses the Rocky Mountains). 
Suffice it to say that his name and fame are indissolubly connected 
with them all. It is with his work as a Scientist and a Publicist that the 
Institute is more intimately concerned, inasmuch as its Publications 
show his researches in geology which enabled him to discuss the forma- 
tion of Toronto.Harbour, the Davenport Gravel Drift, the Valley of the 
Nottawasaga, and the Oil Wells of Enniskillen; in astronomy and 
geography by his exhaustive articles on universal or cosmic time, the 
reformation of the time system of the world, and the establishment 
of a prime meridian as a zero common to all nations; History he illus- 
trated by valuable articles on ocean steam navigation, on early steam- 
boats, and the story of the steamship; Economics craved his attention 
in his suggestions for the improvement of postage stamps. His work 
as a Publicist has already been alluded to in connection with electoral 
representation and parliamentary reform, but perhaps more important 
than all else were his statesmanlike labours for a world-encircling tele- 
graph cable connection between Great Britain and the Dominions 
beyond the seas. The consolidation of the Empire and Imperial unity 
were among his most cherished dreams, long before the present gigantic 
struggle in Europe awoke Britons everywhere to the conception of the 
Empire as one and indivisible. For this he wrought indefatigably by 
speech and pen, attending conferences and councils and congresses, 
travelling into all the quarters of the globe and emphasising his views 
wherever and whenever he had the opportunity. 
A life such as this could not fail to bring to him honours and rewards. 
Four universities conferred on him honorary degrees; innumerable 
learned and scientific societies were proud to enrol his name on their 
list of members, and Royalty made him a Knight Commander of the 
most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. He attended 
the Conversazione held in commemoration of the Jubilee of the Institute 
