 October, 1 884, for the purpose of discussing and, if possible, fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time-reckoning throughout the whole world...  Nature - Page 107edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901 - 942 pages
...President to send delegates to an International Conference to meet at Washington on October 1, 1884, "for the purpose of discussing, and if possible, fixing...employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the globe," was communicated to the several foreign Governments with which... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901 - 892 pages
...President to send delegates to an International Conference to meet at Washington on October 1, 1884, "for the purpose of discussing, and if possible, fixing...employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the globe," was communicated to the several foreign Governments with which... | |
 | 1906 - 500 pages
...countries in the world, *7 in number, held at Washington in October, 1884, for the purpose of f1xing on a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude, 22 representatives voted in favour of adopting the meridian passing through the centre of the transit-instrument... | |
 | Raymond Landon Bridgman, World Peace Foundation - 1911 - 330 pages
...to meet delegates from the United States in the city of Washington on the first of October, 1 884, for the purpose of discussing and, if possible, fixing...longitude and standard of time-reckoning throughout the whole world, this international meridian conference assembled at the time and place designated ; and,... | |
 | United States. President - 1917 - 598 pages
...instant, respecting the approaching international conference at Washington, DC , for the purpose of fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the globe, and recommend that the' sum of $10,000 be appropriated to enable... | |
 | American Society of Civil Engineers - 1882 - 314 pages
...United States in the City of Washington, at such time as he may see fit to designate, for the purpose of fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the globe; and that the President be authorized to appoint delegates, not... | |
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