28 UNIVERSAL OR COSMIC TIME. 
able solution of a problem of international importance, which has 
long engaged the attention of leading geographers and astronomers 
both of Europe and America. 
As the determining one initial Meridian for computing longitude, 
common to all nations, is an object of special interest ta Great Brit- 
ain, as the foremost maritime nation of the world, as well as to Can- 
ada and all the Colonies of the Empire: the Council of the Canadian 
Institute have hoped that the subject will not seem unworthy of your 
Excellency’s consideration. 
They respectfully invite your attention to the matter as set forth in 
the accompanying papers ; and in view of the important international 
interests involved, they beg leave, very respecttully, to ask your Ex- 
cellency to bring the subject under the notice of the Imperial Gov- 
ernment, and to use your high influence to direct the attention of 
official and scientific authorities in Great Britain, and those of foreign 
Governments, to it. 
The peculiarly favourable position which your Excellency occupies 
as the Governor-General, under Her Majesty, of a Dominion com 
manding both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Continent of 
North America, appears to your Memorialists to furnish special 
facilities for promoting the simplification of a complex system, ad- 
mittedly open to well-tounded objections ; and substituting for it one 
which not only offers a solution of the evils, but is also extremely 
simple in its application, and free from the sources of international 
jealousy which have hitherto neutralized the efforts of scientific men 
to remedy practical evils which are universally recognized. 
And your Memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
DANIEL WILSON, LL. D., WM. OLDRIGHT, M.A., M. D., 
President. 2nd Vice-President. 
HENRY SCADDING, D. D., JNO. NOTMAN, 
3rd Vice-President. Treasurer. 
W. D. PEARMAN, M. A., R. RAMSAY WRIGHT, M.A.,B.Sc., 
Cor.-Sec. Rec.-Sec. 
GEO. E. SHAW, B. A., THOS. HEYS, 
Curator. Librarian. 
GEORGE MURRAY. CyB VATA. hie sD: 
RAS REBRY-#, -B: A: Mem: iE. J. CHAPMAN, Lb. D. 
JAMES LOUDON, M. A. 
