id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 17759 International Meridian Conference (1884 : Washington, D.C.) International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings .txt text/plain 67787 3200 61 The Delegates to the International Meridian Conference, who assembled General STRACHEY, Delegate of Great Britain, stated that he thought it Professor ADAMS, Delegate of Great Britain, said that the Conference resolution seemed to him out of order, and that his colleague, Mr. Janssen, desired to address the Conference on the subject. The resolution offered by the Delegate of the United States, Commander further stated that, having heard that the Delegates of France, Mr. LEFAIVRE and Mr. JANSSEN, desired to present certain propositions, he adoption of the meridian of Greenwich, we, the Delegates of France, States, has presented a motion proposing the adoption of the meridian If the resolution for a neutral meridian had been adopted, all nations of the resolutions proposed by the Hon. Delegate of the United States, Great Britain the time of the Observatory at Greenwich is adopted for The adoption of the universal day or any system of time-reckoning ./cache/17759.txt ./txt/17759.txt