p 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 

 European Societies, and the special attention of their members was 

 directed to the documents themselves : 



1. The Inatitut de France Paris. 



2. Society de G^ographie Paris. 



3. Society Beige de G^ographie Brussels. 



4. Konigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften . Berlin. 



i). Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde , Berlin. 



<i. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften Vienna. 



7. K. K. Geographische Gesellschaft Vienna. 



8. Nicolaevskaia Glavnaia Observatoria Pultowa. 



9. Imper. Rousskae Geograficheskoe Obschestou St. Petersburg. ■ 



10. Imper. Akademia Nauk St. Petersburg. 



1 1 . Soci^t^ de Geographic 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. "VVe -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- 

 detic 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 oil 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. 



