King. — On New Zealand Mean Time. 451 



prospects for the future are good. Always with the re- 

 servation that here and there a country or province may find 

 it advisable to adopt the South African and New Zealand 

 half-hour compromise, we may, in the enthusiastic words 

 used by Dr. Schram over twelve years ago, but with a better 

 hope of early realisation than was justifiable then, say that 

 "very soon the system created by American energy will have 

 conquered the globe, and the Greenwich minute and second 

 will regulate the world's clocks." 



The following is a list of the parliamentary documents 

 and of the papers in the "Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute " consulted in the preparation of the above paper : — 



(A.) New Zealand Mean Time. 



"Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," vol. i., 

 p. 48 (1868), (second edition, p. 451): "On New Zealand 

 Mean Time," by James Hector, M.D., F.E.S. 



Neiv Zealand Gazette, Saturday, 31st October, 1868 : 

 Notification of Adoption of New Zealand Mean Time. 



(B.) Longitude of Observatory. 



Appendices to the Journals of the House of Eepre- 

 sentatives : — 



Vol. iii., 1870, D.-No. 27 : Eeport of the Board of Longi- 

 tude. 



Vol. iii., 1870, D.-No. 39: Correspondence relative to the 

 Establishment of an Observatorv. 



Vol. ii., 1871, G.-No. 23: Eeport of Messrs. J. T. 

 Thomson and Henry Jackson on the Telegraphic Measure- 

 ment of the Difference of Longitude between Wellington and 

 Otago. 



Vol. ii., 1876, H.-No. 6 : Eeport of Major H. S. Palmer, 

 E.E., on various Telegraphic Differences of Longitude. 



Vol. ii., 1876, H.-No. 6a : Eeport on Mr. H. C. Eussell's 

 and Archdeacon Stock's Determination of the Difference of 

 Longitude between Sydney and Wellington. 



" Transactions of the New Zealand Institute " : — 



Vol. iii., p. 82 (1870) : " Abstract of Paper by Mr. Henry 

 Jackson on the Longitude of the Hutt Observatory." 



Vol. vii., p. 502 (1874) : " Memorandum on the Longitude 

 of Wellington Observatory," by Captain Nares, E.N., with 

 covering letter by Dr. Hector. 



Vol. viii., p. 441 (1875): "On the Longitude of Welling- 

 ton," by J. T. Thomson. 



Vol. ix., p. 217 (1876) : " On the Longitude of Wellington 

 Observatory," by Ven. Archdeacon Stock, B.A. 



