1890-91.] 



REFORMS IN TIME RECKONING. 



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The Royal Society of Canada has by a unanimous vote recommended 

 that the nomenclature proposed for the hour meridian be brought to 

 the attention of scientific men and sister societies throughout the worlds 

 with the view of obtaining general concurrence. 



Reference to the diagram will make it clear, that we possess in the 

 earth itself, with the sun as the index, the infallible means of measuring- 

 time with precision for ever. The diurnal rotation of the earth is 

 marked by perfect uniformity of movement, and we know of nothing 

 more certain, than its continual recurrence to a given starting point with- 

 in established intervals. Here, then, we have a great chronometer, 

 which can never fail us, common to the world. Here, provided by 



