38 UNIVERSAL OR COSMIC TIME. 
Report to the American Metrological Society. above alluded to, 
would shortly be issued. Accordingly, advance copies were obtained 
from New York, and, together with additional papers issued by this 
Institute,* they were transmitted by His Excellency to the following 
Furopean Societies, and the special attention of their members was 
directed to the documents themselves : 
[eho nistitis ev W ran Ce merce) <iohetoleh-teteieeie aie eee Paris. 
DSociete’ de Geopraphie co: site sire clec\c esere ots = ceeeteeer 7 Paris: 
3. Société Belge de Géographie.. ..............-....--- Brussels. 
4, Kénigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin. 
5a Gesellschafiiur bP rdkamd esse pepe - oe ei tiee eee Berlin. 
6. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften......... 3: Vienna. 
7. K. K. Geographische Gesellschaft................ .. Vienna. 
8. Nicolaevskaia Glavnaia Observatoria ...........-.... Pultowa. 
9. Imper. Rousskae Geograficheskoe Obschestou ........ St. Petersburg. 
LO, Santper: Akademia, Natle s2/60.\. js sie. seis ic oc emfecien tee St. Petersburg. 
1]. Société de Géographic................ BOT PR ee her Geneva. 
By this means attention was obtained for the subject in Europe, 
and when I submit evidence of the fact, I think you will agree with 
me, that no little of the success which has attended the movement 
is owing to our late Governor-General. We must all acknowledge 
how much we are indebted to him for the great personal interest he 
has always shown on the subject. We are certainly warranted in 
forming the opinion, that the dissemination of these papers, under 
such distinguished auspices, awakened attention to the arguments 
they contain, and prepared the way for the subsequent action taken 
at the International Geographical Congress at Venice, at the Geo- 
degic Congress at Rome, and more recently at the Conference at 
Washington. 
Mr. Wilhelm Forster, director of the Berlin Observatory, enters 
into the subject at length in a paper “Zur Beurtheilung Einiger 
Zeitfragen, insbesondere gegen die Einfiihrung einer deutschen Nor- 
malzeit.” [A Review of some considerations on Time, especially 
against the introduction of German National Uniform Time]. 
Mr. Forster proceeds to say: The British Government is now 
transmitting, through its representatives, although at the same time it 
declares itself neutral, a proposition which has been published by a 
society of scientific men in Canada, which aims at the establishment 
* See Communications printed with this. 
