The Rome Conference of 1883
Instead, the various arguments were ventilated once again at the International Geodetic Association conference in Rome in October 1883. Of the various resolutions passed, two are cited below:
‘The conference proposes to the Governments to select for the initial meridian that of Greenwich ... for the reason that that meridian fulfils ... all the conditions wished for by science and because being at present the best known of all, it offers the most chances of being generally accepted’.
‘The Conference hopes that if the entire world ... [accepts] the meridian of Greenwich ... Great Britain will find in this fact ... a new step in favour of the unification of weights and measures, by acceding to the Convention du Mètre of the 20th [of] May, 1875’.