DEPARTMENT OF TERREJSTRIAL MAGNETISM. I95 



Gondokoro ; by the end of the fiscal year he will have occupied about 50 addi- 

 tional stations. From Abercorn Professor Morrison went to Chindi via Lake 

 Nyassa, going thence to Mozambique, Dar-es-Salaam and Mombasa; he 

 arrived at Dar-es-Salaam on September 27, 1909, and had occupied 52 sta- 

 tions since leaving Abercorn. By the end of the fiscal year Professor Morri- 

 son will have occupied about 20 additional stations in German East Africa 

 and British East Africa along the railway lines from Dar-es-Salaam and 

 Mombasa. The total number of stations in Africa for the year will hence 

 be about 320. Such a large number of stations was made possible by the 

 plan adopted of taking observations at each camping-place and so obtaining 

 some knowledge as to the local magnetic conditions of the regions traversed. 



Considerable assistance has been received by the party from various 

 sources, governmental and private, the Hon. Dr. Jameson and Sir Lewis 

 Michell contributing iioo towards the expenses of carriers in Rhodesia. The 

 Royal Society of England furthermore has made a grant of £250 to Dr. 

 Beattie for continuation of the work between Uganda and Egypt. 



China. — Erom November i to December 15, 1908, Dr. C. K. Edmunds, of 

 the Canton Christian College, completed the work described in the previous 

 report, observing the magnetic elements at 3 stations in Shantung, 3 in 

 Kiangsu, and reoccupying his station at Honglok, near Canton. He then 

 resumed his duties with the Canton Christian College. 



A special magnetic expedition in China was organized and placed in charge 

 of Mr. Don C. Sowers. Work was begun early in December, 1908, at Canton, 

 where the outfit previously used by Dr. Edmunds was turned over to the 

 party and the necessary observations were made. The instruments were then 

 compared with those of the Hongkong Observatory, the director, Mr. Eigg, 

 affording every possible assistance. Prof. Chester G. Fuson, Professor of 

 History and Geography at the Canton Christian College, joined the expedi- 

 tion as chief assistant. After all preparations and observations were made 

 at Peking, the party left on January 30 for the overland trip to Kashgar, via 

 Chengchow, Shenchow, Sianfu, Lanchowfu, Liangchowfu, Suchow, Ansi- 

 chow, Hami, Tihuafu (Urumtsi), Karashar, and Aksu. Up to Kashgar, 

 which place was reached July 28, 57 stations had been occupied. From Kash- 

 gar the party proceeded to Khotan via Yarkand, and thence via the Saniu, 

 Suget, Karakorum, Saser, and Khardong Passes to Leh, India, arriving there 

 September 28, 1909. From Leh the railway at Rawal Pindi was reached via 

 Srinagar. Comparisons of instruments were made from October 19 to 23, 

 1909, with the standards of the Trigonometrical Survey of India at the Dehra 

 Dun Magnetic Observatory, and the work of the expedition closed. The 

 total number of stations established was y^. Mr. Sowers has received 

 cordial assistance from the various governments and their representatives, 

 without which the expedition could not, of course, have resulted so success- 

 fully. No little credit is likewise due to the leader's resourcefulness. 



