EEPOETS 



OIT THE 



STATE OF SCIENCE, 



Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors A. Johnson 

 (Secretary), J. Gr. MacGregor, J. B. Cherriman, and H. T. Bovey 

 and Mr. C. Carpmael, for the purpose of promoting Tidal 

 Observations in Canada. 



Last year the Committee reported that Lieut, Gordon, R.N., commander 

 of one of the Dominion crnisers, had been authorised to make some pre- 

 liminary observations and to spend some small sums of money in getting 

 assistance for this purpose ; and also that he had been directed to put 

 himself in communication with Prof. Darwin with the expectation that 

 next year a special grant would be made for systematic tidal observations. 

 It was understood that no more could be done in the interval. The Com- 

 miittee, therefore, have taken no action during the past year. It is 

 considered, however, desirable that they should be reappointed in order 

 to keep the matter before the Government during the next session of 

 Parliament. The Board of Trade of Montreal is still earnestly pressing 

 this as well as other questions connected with a hydrogra,phic survey on 

 the attention of ministers. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir E. S. Ball, Dr. G. 

 Johnstone Stoney, Professors Everett, Fitzgerald, Hicks, 

 Carey Foster, 0. J. Lodge, Poynting, Macgregor, Genese, 

 W. G. Adams, and J^amb, Messrs. Baynes, A. Lodge, Fleming, 

 W. N. Shaw, Glazebrook, Hayward, Lant Carpenter, Cul- 

 verwell {Secretary), and Greenhill, Dr. MuiR, and Messrs. 

 G. Griffith and J. Larmor, appointed for the purpose of con- 

 sidering the desirability of introducing a Uniform, Nomen- 

 clature for the Fundaviental Units of Mechanics, and of co- 

 operating with other bodies engaged in similar ivork. 



The Committee recommend the use of the following names : — 



The unit of velocity on the C.G.S. system of units, i.e., the velocity 

 of one centimetre per second, to be called one Kine. 



