170 REPORTS OP INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Ontario. Mr. Ault, having thus most satisfactorily accompHshed the mission 

 intrusted to him, returned to Washington September 18 and then resumed his 

 college work at Columbia University, New York. Mr. Stewart continued in 

 the field until the end of the year. This expedition was made possible through 

 the good offices of Mr. C. C. Chipman, Commissioner of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company at Winnipeg, and the representatives of the company at the various 

 posts. The results obtained will afford valuable secular variation material in 

 connection with the extensive work of Lefroy during 1842 and 1844, and in a 

 large measure they cover a region where no observations previously existed. 



British North America and Arctic Regions. — By special arrangement with 

 Commander Peary, who for a stated sum agreed to furnish all required facil- 

 ities, the Department was able to assign one of its observers, Mr. C. C. Craft, 

 on the auxiliar}' supply-ship, the Erik, thus securing magnetic observations 

 at 2 stations in Nova Scotia, 2 in Newfoundland, 3 in Labrador, 3 in Baffin 

 Land, and 9 in Greenland, extending almost to the eightieth parallel of lati- 

 tude. Not only Avere new magnetic data obtained, but important secular 

 variation results as well along the entire route traversed. The Erik left 

 Sydney, Cape Breton, on July 15, and returned to Brigus, Newfoundland, 

 September 30. 



A cooperative arrangement was entered into with the Canadian Depart- 

 ment of Marine and Fisheries for securing magnetic and allied observations 

 on an eighteen months' cruise of the Arctic (formerly the Gauss) to Baffin 

 Land, Davis Strait, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, and Melville Sound. 

 For this purpose the Director conferred with the Minister of the Department 

 at Ottawa, Professor R. F. Stupart, Director of the Canadian Meteorological 

 Service, at Toronto, and Capt. J. E. Bernier, Commander of the Arctic, at 

 Quebec. The result was that the Minister detailed to the Arctic Mr. W. E. 

 W. Jackson, an experienced magnetic and meteorological observer of the 

 Canadian Meteorological Service; this Department supplied the outfit of 

 magnetic and electric instruments, gave such additional training (July 8-12) 

 to Mr. Jackson at Washington as he required, and furnished all necessary 

 observation forms and data, as also full directions for the contemplated work. 

 It was decided to confine the magnetic work chiefly to work ashore and on 

 the ice. The Arctic left Quebec on July 29, 1908, and it is confidently be- 

 lieved that in view of the interest shown in the work by Commander Bernier 

 and Mr. Jackson valuable data will be secured. 



Canal Zone, Colombia, Barbados, and Guiana. — Mr. H. W. Fisk, magne- 

 tician, entered on field duty in the early part of July. En route to South 

 America he reoccupied the Department's magnetic stations on shore of Limon 

 Bay, near the north entrance of the Panama Canal. He occupied two sta- 

 tions in Colombia, viz, Cartagena and Savanilla (Puerto Colombia), and in 



