Part 1 (1/2)
International Conference Held at Was.h.i.+ngton for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884.
by Various.
I.
SESSION OF OCTOBER 1, 1884.
The Delegates to the International Meridian Conference, who a.s.sembled in Was.h.i.+ngton upon invitation addressed by the Government of the United States to all nations holding diplomatic relations with it, ”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,” held their first conference to-day, October 1, 1884, in the Diplomatic Hall of the Department of State.
The following delegates were present:
On behalf of Austria-Hungary--
Baron IGNATZ VON SCHaeFFER, _Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary_.
On behalf of Brazil--
Dr. LUIZ CRULS, _Director of the Imperial Observatory of Rio Janeiro_.
On behalf of Colombia--
Commodore S. R. FRANKLIN, _U. S. Navy_, _Superintendent U. S. Naval Observatory_.
On behalf of Costa Rica--
Mr. JUAN FRANCISCO ECHEVERRIA, _Civil Engineer_.
On behalf of France--
Mr. A. LEFAIVRE, _Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General_.
Mr. JANSSEN, _of the Inst.i.tute_, _Director of the Physical Observatory of Paris_.
On behalf of Germany--
Baron H. VON ALVENSLEBEN, _Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary_.
On behalf of Great Britain--
Captain Sir F. J. O. EVANS, _Royal Navy_.
Prof. J. C. ADAMS, _Director of the Cambridge Observatory_.
Lieut.-General STRACHEY, _Member of the Council of India_.
Mr. SANDFORD FLEMING, _Representing the Dominion of Canada_.
On behalf of Guatemala--
M. MILES ROCK, _President of the Boundary Commission_.
On behalf of Hawaii--