Part 19 (1/2)
No. 3. Letter from Mr. A. S. de Chancourtois, accompanying books from Paris.
No. 4. Letter from Mr. A. W. Spofford, enclosing letter of Mr. J. W. Stolting, of Dobbs' Ferry.
No. 5. Letter from Mr. B. Aycrigg, Pa.s.saic, N. J.
No. 6. Letter from J. T. Field, St. Louis, Mo.
No. 7. Letter and two enclosures from Mr. Theodor Paesche.
No. 8. Description of the Universal Time-Piece of Dr. A. M.
Cory.
No. 9. Letter and enclosure from Mr. E. R. Knorr.
No. 10. Letter from Mr. J. E. Hilgard, of the U. S. Coast Survey and Geodetic Survey.
No. 11. Arguments by Committee of New York and New Jersey branch, and other papers relating to weights and measures.
No. 12. Letter from Lt. C. A. S. Totten, U.S.A., in relation to a Standard Meridian.
No. 13. Letter from Mr. J. P. Merritt, in relation to the Metric System.
No. 14. Postal card from W. H. Yates, in relation to the Mercator Projection.
No. 15. A New System of Mensuration, by Lawrence S. Benson.
No. 16. Letter of T. C. Octman, of Hope Mills, N. C., calling attention to the fact that the meridian of Greenwich pa.s.ses through Havre.
No. 17. Letter from Dr. H. K. Whitner, explaining his notation of 24 hours.
I am, sir, with great respect, your obedient servant,
C. R. P. RODGERS, _President International Meridian Conference_.
Prof. J. C. ADAMS.
_Report of the Committee._
The Committee on communications respectfully reports as follows:
We have carefully examined all of the communications referred to us, as enumerated in the letter of President Rodgers, with the following results:
No. 1 recommends that the meridian of Bethlehem be adopted as the initial meridian. This question has been already disposed of by the Conference; therefore further consideration of the proposition is unnecessary.
No. 2 refers to an invention, the author of which states that ”a patent has been applied for,” consequently your Committee does not feel called upon to express any opinion upon it.
No. 3 is a letter from M. de Chancourtois, accompanying a work by him which contains an elaborate program of a system of geography based on decimal measures, both of time and of angles, and on the adoption of an international meridian.
The work also contains copious historical notices on the metric system and on the initial meridian.