hich probably will be adopted for the
universal day, might also be introduced for counting the local time
side by side with the old method of counting the hours of 0 to 12 A.
M. and 0 to 12 p. m.

Count LEWENHAUPT, Delegate of Sweden. I have had the honor to transmit
to the members of the Conference a resume of a report on this subject
made by Professor Gylden, an eminent Swedish astronomer, whose name,
no doubt, is familiar to many of the Delegates. The system proposed by
Mr. Gylden is similar to the one now proposed by the Delegate for
Great Britain. The only difference is that Mr. Gylden, in explaining
the system, recommends the adoption of equidistant meridians,
separated by intervals of 21/2 deg., or 10 minutes of time, while the
proposition of the Delegate for Great Britain is so worded that this
distance may be greater than 10 minutes. This difference is, however,
only a question of detail. The basis of Mr. Gylden's system is that
time meridians should be separated from the standard initial meridian
by either 10 or some integral multiple of 10 minutes. Therefore, I
shall, with pleasure, vote for the resolution of the Delegate from
Great Britain.

I beg only permission of the Conference to insert Mr. Gylden's report
as part of my remarks:

_RESUME OF A REPORT read before the Swedish Geographical
Society by Hugo Gylden, Professor of Astronomy and member of
the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, concerning the use of
Equidistant Meridians for the fixation of the Hour._

If we suppose the meridian passing through the Observatory
of Greenwich extended round the globe, this grand circle
will cut the equator, at 180 deg. from Greenwich, at some place
a little east of New Zealand. This meridian falls almost
entirely in the Ocean, and cuts, in any case, not more than
a few small islands in the Pacific. If we suppose, further,
another great circle at 90 deg. from the meridian of Greenwich,
the western half touches very nearly New Orleans, and the
eastern half passes a few minutes from Calcutta. If, now,
the hour is fixed according to these four meridians, we have
four cardinal times--one European, one American, one
Asiatic, and one Oceanic.

It will, however, be necessary to fix much more than one
civil time for Europe. Therefore I suppose for Europe a
whole system of meridians, which, however, ought not to be
closer