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Resolved — 6. That the gentlemen whose names follow be an Ex- 

 ecutive Committee to make arrangements for the proposed Meeting 

 of Delegates, and to take such steps as may seem expedient in fur- 

 therance of the objects of these resolutions. And that all communi- 

 cations in respect thereof be transmitted to General W. B. Hazen 

 Meteorological Bureau, War Department, Washington. 



DR. F. A. P. BARNARD, President of American Metrological 

 Society, New York. 



CAPTAIN GEORGE M. WHEELER, Corps of Engineers, 

 U. S. A., Washington. 



CHIEF JUSTICE DALY, President of the American Geographi- 

 cal Society, New York. 



JUSTICE FIELD, Supreme Court, Washington. 



GENERAL G. W. CULLUM, Vice-President American Oeogra- 

 phicaj, Society, New York. 



GENERAL W. B. B.AZE,'^ , Director of Meteorological Bureau, 



Washington. 



JUDGE PEABODY, American Geographical Society, New York, 



PROFESSOR CLEVELAND ABBE, Signal Office, Washington. 



DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, American Geographical Society, 

 New York. 



JAMES B. FRANCIS, President of the American Society of 

 Civil Engineers, Boston. 



DR. DANIEL WILSON, President of Toronto University, 

 Toronto. 



JOHN LANGTON, President of the Canadian Institute, Toronto. 



SANDFORD FLEMING, Chancellor of Queen's University of 

 Canada, Kingston. 



Resolved — 7. That the Italian Government be respectfully re- 

 quested to communicate these resolutions to the Governments of all 

 other countries. 



After full discussion the Committee agreed to report favourably, 

 and recorded the following minute : — 



[translation.] 



The Committee considers that within a year an International Com- 

 mission may be appointed by the Governments to consider the ques- 

 tion of an Initial Meridian, having in view not only the question of 

 longitude but specially that of hours and dates. The Commission 

 should be composed of scientific men, such as geodicians, geographers 

 and men who represent the interests of commerce, etc. Three mem- 

 bers might be named by each nation. The President of the Italian 

 Geographical Society is requested to take the initiative in bringing 

 the subject before his Government and foreign Geographical Soci- 

 eties, and to take the necessary steps for the realization of the wish 

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