Resolutions Adopted by the Congress 



4' 5 



Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., 

 per Western U?iio?i Telegraph Co. : 10 

 p. m. The Lowell Observatory grate- 

 fully acknowledges the message of greet- 

 ing from the Eighth Geographic Con- 

 gress and begs leave to express its 

 appreciation and good wishes for the 

 valuable work done by the Congress 

 for science. 



Goodsell Observatory \Northfield, Minn. , 

 per Western Unio?i Telegraph Co. : Good- 

 sell Observatory, Northfield, Minn., 

 sends greetings to International Geo- 

 graphical Congress. The Washington 

 time signals came perfectly, and we 

 took the record with our mean-time 

 clock on the chronograph for the 5 

 minutes. The measured interval was 

 very closely one-tenth of a second, 

 Washington slow, as it should be, 



Washburn Observatory, /l/adison, Wis., 

 per Western Union Telegraph Co. : Greet- 

 ing from Washburn Observatory ; time 

 signal received 10 hours, 59 minutes, 

 59.7 seconds (interval, 0.3 of a second). 



Chamberlain Observatory , Denver, Col. , 

 per Western Union Telegraph Co. : The 

 signals were received fairly well, but 

 were somewhat irregular. The result 

 obtained for transmission time is seven- 

 hundred ths of a second. 



Laws Observatory, Columbia, Mo., per 

 Western U?iion Telegraph Co. : Special 

 series of time signals were received on 

 the chronograph of this observatory 

 along with signals from our own clock. 

 The midnight signal was registered at 

 10 hours, 59 minutes, 59.46 seconds, 

 central standard time. (Interval, 0.54 

 of a second.) 



Allegheny Observatory , Allegheny , Pa., 

 per Western Union Telegraph Co. : The 

 signals from your observatory were re- 

 corded on our chronograph 0.42 of a 

 second later than our own signals. 



Observatory of Mare Island Navy Yard, ' 

 Cal. , per Western Union Telegraph Co. : 

 Time was received at Mare Island 

 thirty-two- hundredths of a second early. 



Bra?ich Hydrographic Office, New 

 York, N. Y, per Western U?iion Tele- 

 graph Co. : Time signals received O K 

 at New York. 



It may be added that the reported 

 receipt in some cases of the time signals 

 at a time earlier than when they started, 

 probably means that the latter portion 

 of the 5-minute series of signals failed 

 to get through the telegraphs or cables. 

 so that the final signal received started 

 earlier than midnight. 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE EIGHTH 

 INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CON- 

 GRESS, SEPTEMBER, 1904 



MAPS ON SCALE OF r : 1,000,000 



TWO resolutions introduced by 

 Dr Albrecht Penck, of Vienna: 

 1 . The Eighth International 

 Geographic Congress at Washington 

 presents its thanks to the Service Geo- 

 graphique de l'Armee a Paris, to the 

 Kartographische Abteilung der Konig- 

 lisch - Preussichen Landsaufnahme, in 

 Berlin, and to the Intelligence Division 



of the War Office at London for having 

 commenced the publication of large 

 maps on the scale of 1 : 1,000,000, which 

 correspond in a general way to the maps 

 of the world, proposed by the Congress 

 at Berne, and it invites these offices to 

 prepare an account of their maps, ac- 

 companied, if possible, by parts of 

 them, for publication in the report of 

 the Washington meeting. 



