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The International Prime Meridian Con- 

 ference. — The International Conference, for 

 fixing upon a prime meridian whence longi- 

 tude should be reckoned, began its sessions 

 in Washington, October 1st. Twenty-five 

 nations were represented by forty delegates. 

 Rear-Admiral C. R. P. Rogers, U. S. N., was 

 chosen President of the Conference, and 

 Lieutenant-General Strachey, of Great Brit- 

 ain, Mr. Janssen, of Meudon, France, and 

 Dr. Cruls, of Rio Janeiro, were elected sec- 

 retaries. A number of American scientific 

 men and foreign visitors of scientific repu- 

 tation, not regular delegates, were allowed 

 to attend the meetings, with the understand- 

 ing that they might participate in the dis- 

 cussions on special invitation. The first 

 resolution adopted by the Conference de- 

 clared the desirability of adopting a univer- 

 sal meridian. A resolution was then offered 

 recommending the meridian of Greenwich 

 as a standard meridian for longitudes, but 

 it was withdrawn to allow the French dele- 

 gates to introduce a resolution providing foe 

 a neutral meridian, which should cut no 

 great continent. To this, it was objected 

 that no suitable observatory was situated in 

 any place which such a meridian would pass 

 through ; and that the selection of a merid- 

 ian so situated would require a new set of 

 observations and surveys to connect it with 

 existing longitudes, and a readjustment of 

 seventy-five per cent of all the world's charts, 

 at an expense of about ten million dollars. 

 The resolution for a neutral meridian was 

 lost by a large majority. The resolution, 

 " That the Conference proposes to the gov- 

 ernments represented the adoption as a 



