1889-90.] SCIENTIFIC TIME RECKONING. 



FOREIGN COUNTRIES.— ( Cofainued) 



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NOTE. 

 Respecting the Hour Meridians as Numbered on the Map. 



It is obviously desirable that the hour meridians or sub-standards for 



reckoning time by all nations should be designated in a manner to 



render them easily distinguishable and readily known throughout the 



world. A nomenclature based on geographical terms or derived from 



local names, however appropriate in one country, may in another, or in 



an opposite hemisphere be quite inapplicable. Moreover, not only 

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