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appointed by the President to confer 

 with a committee of the International 

 Statistical Institute on methods of ob- 

 taining the population in countries tak- 

 ing no census 



STANDARD TIME 



The following resolution, introduced 

 by E. E. Hayden, was adopted : 



Resolved, In view of the fact that a 

 large majority of the nations of the 

 world have already adopted systems of 

 standard time based upon the meridian 

 of Greenwich as prime meridian, that 

 this Congress is in favor of the universal 

 adoption of the meridian of Greenwich 

 as the basis of all systems of standard 

 time. 



PUBDI CATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS 



The following suggestion, introduced 

 by Dr Albrecht Penck, was adopted : 



It is suggested by the lantern slides 

 shown by Mr Siebers and by the photo- 

 graphs by Mr Willis that it is desirable 

 that in these and the cases of other ex- 

 ploring travelers photographs of geo- 

 graphical significance might be pub- 

 lished, and accompanied by short ex- 

 planatory notes, so that they may form 

 collections of representative physical 

 features of different parts of the world. 



THE NINTH CONGRESS 



The invitation extended by the Gov- 

 ernment of Switzerland and the Geo- 



graphical Society of Geneva to hold the 

 Ninth International Geographic Con- 

 gress at Geneva in 1908 was accepted. 



CARTOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION 



The following resolution, introduced 

 by Dr Albrecht Penck, was adopted : 



The Congress refers the proposition 

 of Mr Schokalsky and the paper of Mr 

 Schrader to the committee appointed at 

 the Congress of Berlin concerning the 

 Cartographical Association . This com- 

 mittee is requested to report on the ne- 

 cessity of a Cartographical Association 

 to the next Congress. In the meantime 

 the committee might interest geograph- 

 ical societies in the plan and in the ne- 

 cessity of dealing with maps in geo- 

 graphical journals in a more detailed 

 way than is now usual, and in showing 

 that the general use of maps should be 

 popularized and extended by instruction 

 in schools, and the commerce with maps 

 should be better organized. 



The committee being now reduced by 

 the death of General Titto and the with- 

 drawal of General Heinmek in favor of 

 Mr Schrader, the Congress appoints the 

 following gentlemen to the committee : 



Mr Franz Schrader, Paris. 



Jules de Schokalsky, St Petersburg 



Professor Oberhummer, Vienna. 



Mr Gannett, Washington. 



Mr Bartholomew, Edinburgh. 



The committee was appointed, and Mr 

 . Gannett was designated as chairman. 



