A-8 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



That there is evidence to show that shipmasters of merchant sliips, 

 both i^ritish and foreign, are ahnost unanimously in favour of the uniti- 

 cation of time at sea. 



That Canada, as a maritime country and an important di\àsion of 

 the Bi-itish Em})ire is peculiarly interested in the reform, and from the 

 tirst has taken a prominent part in promoting the change. 



That for all these reasons, the Eoyal Society of Canada respectfully 

 prays your Excellency to take such steps as may seem best calculated to 

 secure the adoption by Her Majestj^'s Cxovernment of the sixth resolution 

 of the International Prime Meridian Conference of 1884, so that it may 

 take effect on the tirst day of the new century. 



And your memorialists will ever pray. 



Alfred E. C. Selwyn, C.M.G., 



President, Royal Society of Canada. 



JnO. GrEO. BOURINOT, 



Hon. Sec, Eoyal Society of Canada. 

 Ottawa, Aj.ril 27th, 1896. 



