No. 8.  This communication refers to an invention which has no bearing on the question before the Conference.  The committee therefore abstain from expressing an opinion as to its merits.

No. 9.  Two letters from Mr. E. R. Knorr, of Washington, D.C., advocating the advisability of reckoning longitude “westward from 0 deg. to 359 deg.,” and marking them on charts by time instead of by degrees.  The Conference has already taken action on the question involved.

No. 10.  A letter from Prof.  Hilgard, enclosing a pamphlet by Lt.  C. A. S. Totten on the metrology of the great pyramid, a subject which does not fall within the scope of the subjects presented for the consideration of this Conference.  In the enclosing letter Prof.  Hilgard says:  “I am purely and squarely for Greenwich midnight as the beginning of the universal day, and an east and west count of longitude; that is, 180 deg. each way.”

No. 11 advocates the preservation of the Anglo-Saxon system of weights and measures.  This subject being foreign to the questions under consideration by this Conference, the Committee deems further comment unnecessary.

No. 12.  A letter from Lieut.  C. A. S. Totten, U.S.A., advocating a prime meridian through the great pyramid.  The proposition involved has already been decided by the Conference.

No. 13 recommends redistribution of time according to the decimal system.  As already remarked under No. 3, this proposition is clearly not within the limits indicated by the instructions which we have received from our respective governments.

No. 14 states that the author has a plan by which “chronometers will record the longitude equably.”  This proposition is foreign to the subjects under consideration by the Conference.

     No. 15 proposes a new system of mensuration; and, therefore,
     this does not fall within the subjects for consideration by
     the Conference.

No. 16.  This communication suggests that as the prime meridian passes through Havre, it should be allowable to call it by that name.  This Committee recommends that the prime meridian be not named after the localities through which it passes, but be called simply “The Prime Meridian.”

     No. 17 is the subject of a patent.  The Committee does not
     feel called upon to express an opinion respecting it.

     This report is respectfully submitted to the Conference.

                              J. C. ADAMS,
                              Chairman Committee on Communications.

     WASHINGTON, Oct. 18th, 1884.

The PRESIDENT.  The report of the Committee is before the Conference.

Mr. RUTHERFURD, the Delegate of the United States.  I move that the report be accepted, and its conclusions adopted.