IV 



CONTENTS 



Land Magnetic Observations, 1914-20 Continued. 

 Observers' field reports Continued. page 



A. L. Kennedy, on magnetic work in South Aus- 

 tralia and Western Australia, Aug. to Oct. 1914 161 

 E. Kidson, on the general magnetic survey of 

 Australia and on an expedition over the Can- 

 ning Stock-Route, Western Australia, 1914. . 164 

 W. C. Parkinson, on magnetic work in Western 



Australia, April to Oct. 1914 172 



W. C. Parkinson, on magnetic work in the Is- 

 lands of the Pacific Ocean, Jan. to Dec. 1915. 174 

 W C. Parkinson, on magnetic work in New Zea- 

 land, Feb. to April 1910 179 



A. D. Power, on magnetic work in Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, March to October 



1914 180 



H. E. Sawyer, on magnetic work in French West 

 Africa, Guinea Coast, and Nigeria, July 1913 



to Nov. 1914 183 



H. E. Sawyer, on magnetic work in Southern, 

 Central, and Northeastern Africa, Dec. 1915 



to Dec. 1918 . 186 



H. R. Schmitt, on magnetic work in Peru, Chile, 



Bolivia, and Brazil, March to Nov. 1914. .. . 194 

 A. Sterling, on magnetic work in Chile, Bolivia, 



Brazil, and the Guianas, Feb. 1917 to July 1918 197 

 A. Sterling, on magnetic work in Chile and Argen- 

 tina, Feb. to Oct. 1919 200 



W. F. Wallis, on magnetic work in Abyssinia and 

 along the Mediterranean and Red Sea Coasts, 



Africa, Oct. 1913 to Dec. 1914 202 



D. M. Wise, on magnetic work in Belgian Congo, 

 Angola, and adjacent colonies, Jan. 1914 to 



June 1915 206 



D. M. Wise, on magnetic work for selection of 

 observatory site in Northwestern South Amer- 

 ica, Sept. 1916 to Feb. 1917 210 



D. M. Wise, on magnetic work in Peru, May to 



Sept. 1917 211 



Synopses of additional magnetic surveys, 1914 

 1920: Roald Amundsen, J. P. Ault, L. A. 

 Bauer, F. Brown, C. K. Edmunds, H. W. Fisk, 

 E. Kidson, W. J. Peters and D. W. Berky, A. 

 D. Power and L. L. Tanguy, D. M. Wise, 

 cruises of the Carnegie, observatory-site sur- 

 veys, standardizing observations, and eclipse 



parties 214 



Descriptions of stations 223 



Africa 224 



Abyssinia 224 



Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 224 



Angola 2-7 



Belgian Congo 231 



British South and Central Africa 235 



Cameroun 236 



Cyrenaica 240 



Egypt 240 



Eritrea 241 



French Equatorial Africa 241 



French Somaliland 248 



French West Africa 248 



Gold Coast Colony 219 



Liberia 249 



Nigeria 250 



Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) 252 



Southwest Africa 253 



Land Magnetic Observations, 1914-20 Concluded. 

 Descriptions of Stations Concluded. 

 Africa Concluded. page 



Spanish Guinea 254 



Tripolitania 254 



Uganda 254 



Asia 254 



Arabia 254 



China 254 



India 286 



Japan 286 



Siberia 286 



Straits Settlements 286 



Australasia 286 



Australia 286 



New Zealand 305 



Europe 306 



Great Britain 306 



Norway 306 



North America 307 



Canada 307 



Central America 307 



Newfoundland (Including Labrador Coast) ... 308 



United States 308 



South America 314 



Argentina 314 



Bolivia 320 



Brazil 322 



Chile 328 



Colombia 330 



Ecuador 331 



Guiana 332 



Peru 332 



Uruguay 336 



Venezuela 336 



Islands, Atlantic Ocean 336 



Canary Islands 336 



Fernando Po 337 



Iceland 337 



Madeiras 337 



St. Helena 337 



South Georgia 338 



West Indies 338 



Islands, Indian Ocean 338 



Ceylon 338 



Madagascar 338 



Islands, Pacific Ocean 340 



Bismarck Archipelago 340 



Easter Island 341 



Ellice Islands 341 



Fiji Islands 342 



Gilbert Islands 342 



Hawaiian Islands 343 



Lord Howe Island 343 



Marianas (Ladrone Islands) 343 



New Caledonia (Including Loyalty Islands) . . 343 

 New Guinea (Including Louisiade and D'En- 



trecasteaux Islands) 344 



New Hebrides 345 



Norfolk Island 346 



Samoan Islands 346 



Society Islands 346 



Solomon Islands 347 



Tokelau Islands 348 



Tonga Islands 348 



