International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. / Protocols of the Proceedings

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A PRIME MERIDIAN
A UNIVERSAL DAY.

SESSION OF OCTOBER 1, 1884.
The Delegates to the International Meridian Conference, who assembled in Washington 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 Schæffer,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary .
On behalf of Brazil—
Dr. Luiz Cruls,