•2,6 UNIVERSAL OR COSMIC TIME. 



able solution of a problem of international importance, wliich lias 

 long engaged the attention of leading geograpliers and astronomers 

 both, of Europe and America. 



As the determining one initial Meridian for computing longitude, 

 eommou to all nations, is an object of special interest to 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 joixr 

 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 respectfully, to ask your Ex- 

 cellency to bring the subject under the -notice of the Imperial Gov- 

 ernment, and to use your high influence to dii'ect 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 coui- 

 manding both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Continent of 

 North America, appears to your Memorialists to furnish special 

 facilities for pi-omoting the simplification of a complex system, ad- 

 mittedly open to well-founded 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 

 iealousy 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 AVILSON, LL, D., WM. OLDRIGHT, M. A., M. D.. 



Pmsident. '2nd Vice-President. 



HENKY SC ADDING, D. D., JNO. NOTMAN, 



3i-d Vice- PrtiikknL Treasurer. 



W. D. PEARMAX, M. A., R. RAMSAY WRIGHT, M.A.,B.Sc., 



Cor. -Sec. Rec.-Stc. 



GEO. E. SHAW, B. A., THOS. HEYS, 



Curator. L'lhrarian. 



OEORGE MURRAY. C. B. HALL, M. D. 



11. A. REEVE, B. A., M. D. E. J. CHAPMAN, LL, D. 

 JAMES LOUDON, M. A. 



