36 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



Wallace Downey, chief constructor, of the ship. They spard no pains to 

 make her come up to her novel and exacting requirements. 



The field-work of the department has gone forward also with corre- 

 sponding dispatch. Surveys have been carried on in fifteen different coun- 

 tries distributed over four different continents. The routes traverst by the 

 observers will give a large aggregate of data from hitherto little-known or 

 unexplord regions. Thus, Mr. Sowers has obtaind observations at inter- 

 vals along a route extending from eastern China west across China and 

 Chinese Turkestan, and thence south to Bombay, India; Professor Beattie, 

 Research Associate of the Department, is now near Khartoum en route from 

 Cape Town to Cairo ; Mr. Pearson has secured measurements in Persia, 

 Beluchistan, Arabia, Turkey, and Russia; while other observers have been 

 equally active in South America, Central America, and British America. 



In the meantime the office computations of the results from the surveys 

 of the Galilee on the Pacific Ocean, along with similar computations from 

 field observations, are approaching the publication stage. The office staff is 

 also continuously occupied with the work of comparison, testing, repairs, and 

 construction of instruments along with many researches into the numerous 

 manifestations and the possible cosmic connections of terrestrial magnetism. 

 For details with respect to these more technical matters reference may be 

 made to the Director's annual report and to the departmental publications 

 of the year. 



Many capital researches have been carried on during the year by eminent 



associates of the Institution. Fifteen of these have been connected directly 



with the several departments concerned, thirty of them 



Investigations of Yi^iye pursued their investigations independently, while 

 Research Associates. ^ ,,.7 •,• ii-i- 



four have been enlisted m the enterprise for the publica- 

 tion of an edition of the master-works on international law. Reports of 

 progress from many of these associates will be found in the current Year 

 Book, and lists of their publications are included, so far as obtainable, in the 

 bibliografy for the year. The range of these investigations extends to fif- 

 teen distinct fields, namely : archeology, astronomy, astrophysics, chemistry, 

 cosmogony, geology, geophysics, international law, literature, mathematics, 

 metallurgy, meteorology, paleontology, physics, and zoology. 



