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. There being no objection, the report was adopted. The PRESIDENT. In the regular order of business to-day, the first subject before the Conference is the resolution offered on Saturday by the Delegate of the United States, Mr. RUTHERFURD, with the amendment offered by the Delegate of Sweden, Count LEWENHAUPT. The resolution is as follows: "_Resolved_, That this universal day is to be a mean solar day, is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." The amendment offered is as follows: "The Conference recommends as initial point for the universal hour and the cosmic day the mean mid-day of Greenwich, coinciding with the moment of midnight or the beginning of the civil day at the meridian 12 hours or 180 deg. from Greenwich. "The universal hours are to be counted from 0 up to 24 hours."