44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



dial thanks of the Institute were tendered to Mr. Fleming and 

 a Committee appointed to prepare an appropriate resolution, 

 which Committee subsequently reported the following •— 



The Canadian Institute recognizes in the gift now oft'ered to it by 

 Mr. Sandford Fleming a fresh and unexpected evidence of his kindly 

 and generous heart, and of the deep interest he has always taken in 

 the welfare of the Institute. A mere expi'ession of thanks conveys 

 but feebly the gratitude with which the Institute acknowledges its 

 indebtedness to Mr. Fleming whose numerous contributions to its 

 Proceedings have been crowned by the movement initiated by him 

 before the Institute now leading to the adoption of a luiiform system 

 of time-reckoning over the whole world. 



The Fortieth Annual Report was read and adopted, as 

 follows : 



The Council of the Canadian Institute has the honor to lay before 

 its members its Fortieth Annual Report. 



The Council has much pleasure and gratification in recording an 

 increased interest in the work, and an extension in the influence and 

 prestige of the Institute. 



The movement for a univei'sal system of time-reckoning, initiated 

 by Mr. Sandford Fleming has spread far and wide. A deputa- 

 tion waited on His Excellency Lord Lansdowne in May of last yeai' 

 with regai'd to this subject, who was kind enough to bring the pam- 

 phlet on " Time-Reckoning " before the notice of the Secretary of 

 State, through whom it was sent to all the colonial and foreign 

 governments. 



Cosmic or twenty-four hour time is being largely adopted on this 

 continent ; inquiries have lately been received from the government 

 of Hong Kong on this subject. The very enterprising kingdom of 

 Japan has adopted the system as the basis of its time reckoning. 



A clock marking cosmic time, the present of an American firm, has 

 been in the reading room of the Institute for over twelve months. 



The government of our Province paid the institute the compliment 

 of placing one of its members, Mr. "W. Hamilton Merritt, on tlie 

 Royal Commission to enquii-e into the Mineral and Mining Resources 

 of the Province. The report is of great value and will largely extend 

 the development of our mineral resources. 



