8o CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



matics, mechanics, and physics. Such persons should be ap- 

 pointed Fellows in Meteorology, with salaries of from $1,500 to 

 $3,000, depending on age and experience, renewable from time to 

 time, as occasion may demand, and who shall devote their whole 

 time to appropriate research. The general trend of their researches 

 should be prescribed by the three older persons who conduct this 

 division. 



3. A laboratory' arranged for general physical research should be at 

 the disposal of the fellows in meteorolog}', but at other times a so- 

 called meteorological obsen/atory, or special laboratory, would be 

 needed, built- with a view to special investigation. In some cases 

 the fellows would be obliged to occupy distant stations or to take 

 ocean voyages or serial voyages, or to make use of sounding bal- 

 loons and kites. All this does not constitute a very expensive 

 matter, as the physical laboratory must be provided for general 

 physics, and the meteorological laboratory or observatory is quite a 

 simple matter. 



4, The research problems appropriate to the Carnegie Institution 

 may in some cases seem also appropriate to the various government 

 weather bureaus, but that is principally because such bureaus have 

 not confined themselves to the practical applications of what is. 

 known in meteorolog}'^, but have also devoted a small portion of 

 their attention to research in lines that promise to be helpful to the 

 progress of their specific duties. Without encroaching upon the 

 privileges and duties, or the fields of labor imposed upon these 

 government bureaus, the Carnegie Institution may often prosecute 

 studies along the same lines of inquiry, and, in fact, frequently this 

 will be very desirable, especially when a given investigation requires 

 the co-operation of more stations or more individuals than any one 

 bureau can command. Several large works of this character have 

 been suggested by Professor Willis L- Moore in his communication 

 of April 15, as Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, and we 

 repeat them herewith, after rearranging them in what we conceive 

 to be the order of their importance to the immediate needs of meteor- 

 ology. Whenever the Carnegie Institution intimates its desire and 

 intention of taking up any one of these works, we have reason to 

 believe that the Weather Bureau, the Hydrographic Office, and 

 other similar institutions in Europe will co-operate most heartily. 

 The list is as ibllows : 



(a) General bibliogi-aphy of meteorology up to 1900 inclusive. 



