2b UNIVERSAL OR COSMIC TIME. 
venture to congratulate the Canadian Institute on the part which it 
lias taken in the solution of this problem. It stands among the 
Societies who first considered this comparatively new question. In- 
deed, it may be claimed that the Institute is to some extent the 
pioneer Society in awakening the world to the advantages to be 
derived from the establishment of Cosmic Time.. 
In conclusion, I will avail myself of the words of an early Presi- 
dent of the Institute, whose portrait for more than thirty years 
has adorned the hall in which we are now assembled. Refer- 
ring to the results already effected in Time-reform and the prospects 
for the future, General Suv Henry Lefroy, in his address at the 
late meeting of the British Association in Montreal, remarked : 
‘* Whether we conceive its educational ten:lency or its influence on the 
fiiture intercourse of unborn millions, it is a somewhat remarkable 
evidence that agreement upon questions of general concern is not 
that unattainable thing which we are apt to consider it.” 
After the reading of Mr. Fleiing’s paper, the following Resolution 
was moved by Dr. E. A, Meredith, seconded by Mr. W. H. Van- 
derSmissen, and passed : 
‘That the meeting, considering this an exceptional case, desire to tender 
a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Sandford Fleming, C,M.G., for his interesting 
eomununieation on the subject of ‘Cosmic Time,’ and they wish, at the same 
ime, to record their satisfaction that to one of the original members of the 
Institute is due the honour of being the first to bring prominently before the 
scientific world, through the medium of the Journal of the Institute, the 
important subject of Time Reform, and the adoption of uniform or Cosmic 
Time.” 
