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18, 1883, which saw this system adopted, whether we consider its educational 

 tendency or its influence on the future intercourse of unborn millions. It is a 

 somewhat memorahle evidence also that agreement upon questions of general 

 concern is not that unattainable thing which we are apt to consider it. The next 

 step will not he long delayed ; that is, the agreement of the civilised world to use 

 one first meridian, Paris, Ferrol, Washington, Rio de Janeiro, gracefully, as I 

 venture to hope, giving that precedency to Greenwich which is demanded by the 

 fact that an overwhelming proportion of the existing nautical charts of all nations, 

 and of maps and atlases in most of them, already refer their longitudes to that 

 meridian ; no other change would he so easy or so little felt. 



APPENDIX. 

 List of Stations occupied by Europeans in Central Africa in 1884. 



[This list has been compiled from the latest reports of the Belgian International 

 Association and of the various Missionary Societies, extended by information com- 

 municated hy that eminent African scholar and linguist, Mr. Robert Needham 

 Cust. The latitudes and longitudes on the Eastern Section are chiefly from Mr. 

 Ravenstein's maps, and in many instances are hut an approximation. There are 

 probably a few small out-stations not included, and possibly some of the places 

 named are practically identical with others, as Kiinua-Mgua and Mkunazini, 

 which are mission schools at Zanzibar helonging to Mwembe.] 



ABBREVIATIONS EMPLOYED. 



Free Church of Scotland Mission. 

 French Evangelical Mission. 

 French Protestant Mission 



(Arnot's). 

 German African Association. 

 Jesuits, English and French. 

 Livingstone Inland Mission. 

 London Missionary Society. 

 Notre Dame d'Afrique d'Alger. 

 Peres du Saint Esprit. 

 Peres du Sacre Coeur de Marie. 

 United Methodist Mission. 

 Universities Mission. 



I. East of Longitude 25° E. from the Equator to the Zambesi. 

 Stations in italic are understood to lie giro/ up. 



