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THE Permanent Commission of the International Geodetic Association, presided over by General Ibanez, has decided to meet on the i6th inst. at Geneva, on the invitation which has been addressed to it by the Government of the little republic. The first official sitting is to be at 2 o'clock, on the loth, at the Hotel de Ville of Geneva, in the room known as “the Alabama.” In the evening Prof. E. Plantamour will hold a reception. The official sittings will continue daily at 10 A.M., in the same room, to the end of the week, interrupted on the 18th by a procession of steamers on the lake, which will occupy the whole of the day. On the evening of the 17th the Commissioners are invited to dine by the Council of the State of Geneva, and on the afternoon of the igfh there will be a reception at Secheron by Prof. Plantamour. The programme of the session comprises: The reports of the Permanent Commission and the Central Bureau, the report of the Commission appointed at Hamburg in 1877 to consider the proposals of Lieut.-Col. Adan; the choice of the place of meeting of the sixth conference, and the appointment of special reporters to record the proceedings (1) As to determinations of latitude, longitude, and azimuth; (2) Triangulations and calculations of compensation of the networks; (3) Levelling operations and result of mareographic operations; (4) Measurements of the intensity of gravitation; (5) Publications relating to the measurement of degrees in Europe.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 20, 433–434 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020433b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020433b0