DEPARTMENT OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM. I71 



Barbados observations were made at Bridgetown (Department's station of 

 1905) and at Bathsheba. Up to October 4 Mr. Fisk had occupied 15 stations 

 in British Guiana, and during remainder of the month was engaged in mag- 

 netic work in Dutch Guiana and French Guiana. 



China. — At the end of October, 1907, Dr. C. K. Edmunds, occasionally on 

 duty as magnetic observer, was in the field in the interior of China in the 

 Province of Hupeh. Continuing in the field until December, he made fur- 

 ther observations at the following points : Hankow, Hupeh ; Kiukiang, 

 Kiangsi ; Changsha, Hunan ; Hengchowf u, Hunan ; Yungchowf u, Hunan ; 

 Kweilin, Kwangsi; and Wuchow, Kwangsi. He then returned to his duties 

 with the Christian College at Canton. He resumed field work in the eastern 

 part of China October i. There has been completed thus far by him a fairly 

 detailed magnetic survey of the southeastern part of the Chinese Empire, 

 between approximately the meridians 113° and 122° east and parallels 22° 

 and 42° north. 



Mr. Don C. Sowers, formerly a member of the ocean party, was placed in 

 charge of a special magnetic expedition. His operations will extend from 

 Peking westward, in the vicinity of the fortieth parallel, through China, 

 inclusive of Chinese Turkestan, thence crossing the Himalayas via the Kara- 

 korum Pass, and closing work at one of the base stations of the India Mag- 

 netic Survey. In the portions of China to be penetrated, no magnetic 

 observations whatever have thus far been made. Having completed all 

 necessary preliminary arrangements, i\Ir. Sowers left Washington at the end 

 of October to enter upon this extremely important work. 



Ecuador and Jamaica. — Mr. Edward Kidson, at one time assistant to Dr. 

 Farr at the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory, was appointed a magnetic 

 observer on March i, 1908, and assigned during March and April for fur- 

 ther training and to assist Air. H. F. Skey (Director of the Christchurch 

 Magnetic Observatory) in the magnetic survey of the Chatham Islands, the 

 expense of which, outside of the services of Mr. Kidson, was borne by the 

 New Zealand government. Complete observations were thus made at 15 

 stations, the results of which have been courteously supplied to the Depart- 

 ment by Air. Skey. Mr. Kidson next reported at Washington on June 10, 

 and, after securing further instruction in the methods and instruments used 

 by the Department, left in July for magnetic work in South America. En 

 route in company with Mr. Fisk he secured some observations at the Depart- 

 ment's station, Kingston, Jamaica. 



Towards the close of the year he had completed observations at 9 stations 

 in Ecuador, and was extending the work northward to Quito, from whence 

 he will proceed overland to Bogota, Colombia. He has received valuable 

 assistance from both the British and American diplomatic officials. 



