COSMIC TIME 



CONTENTS. 



No. Page. 



1. Introductory Notes, explanatory of the publication of the several 



documents, under the authority of the Canadian Institute v 



2. ' Paper by Mr. Sandford Fleming on Universal or Cosmic Time, 



read before the Canadian Institute, Dec. 20th, 1884 5 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS, COMMUNICATIONS AND 

 REPORTS. 



3. Memorial of the Canadian Institute to His Excellency tlie Governor 



General of Canada, submitting papers on Time-reckoning and a 

 Prime Meridian, read during the Session, 1878-79 27 



4. His Excellency the Marquis of Lome, Governor- General of Canada, 



to Sir M. E. Hicks-Beach, Colonial Secretary, London. (21st 

 May, 1879) 29 



5. Memorandum of the Canadian Institute, accompanying papers trans- 



mitted to the British Government. (May, 1879) 29 



6. Professor R. Ramsay Wright, Secretary' of the Canadian Institute, 



to His Excellency the (Governor-General. (June 24th, 1879).... 30 



7. His Excellency the Marquis of Lome, Governor-General, to Sir M. 



E. Hicks-Beach, Colonial Secretary, London. (July 12th, 1879) 31 



8. Sir M. E. Hicks-Beach, Colonial Secretary, to the Marquis of Lome, 



Governor-General, Canada. (Oct. 15th, 1879) 31 



9. Sir M. E. Hicks-Beach, Colonial Secretary, to the Marquis of Lome, 



Governor General. (Oct. 17th, 1879) 32 



10. Sir G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal, Greenwich, to the Secretary of 



State for the Colonies. (18th June, 1879) 32 



11. Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, to the 



Colonial Office, London. (Aug. 30th, 1879) 35 



12. Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, to the 



Colonial Office, London. (Sept. 5th, 1879) 35 



13. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the Secretary of State 



for the Colonies. (Oct. 4th, 1879) 38 



14. Sir M, E. Hicks-Beach, Colonial Secretary, to His Excellency the 



Marquis of Lome, Governor-General. (13th Nov., 1879) 38 



15. G. G. Stokes, Esq., Secretary of the Royal Society, to the Colonial 



Office. (Nov. 6th, 1879) 39 



