4 A. TANAKADATE. 



Sinanogawa. This party made observations at a few stations of 

 the East Party of 1893. 



In 1896 the sonthwest of Honsyû, Sikoku and Kyûsyû 

 was surveyed by three parties, called the Kinki Party, the Seto 

 Sea Party and the South- West Party. 



The Kinki Party consisted of S. Nakamura, Y. Katö and 

 T. Tomoda, and began its work on June 30th. and ended on 

 Sept. 6th.; it made observations at 28 stations covering the dis- 

 trict lying to the west of the Sea of Ise up to Okayama Bay 

 making a point on the Island of Awadi. It took observations 

 at a few western stations of the West Party of 1893. 



The Seto Sea Party consisted of A. Tanakadate, D. Sutö 

 and S. Sano, and began its work on June 26th. and ended on 

 Oct. 7th.; it made observations at 43 stations covering the dis- 

 trict lying to the north and south of the Seto Sea on the west 

 side of Okayama Bay, and three stations on the northeast of 

 Kyûsyû. 



The South-West Party consisted of A. Imamura, S. Sinzyö 

 and M. Hattori, and began its work on June 28th. and ended 

 on Sept. 7th.; it made observations at 30 stations covering the 

 whole of Kyûsyû except the three stations above mentioned. 



In counting the number of stations, the base station Tokyo 

 and some of the repeated observations at the same station in 

 different years are included ; while those places where only dip 

 and vibration experiments were made are excluded. 



§ 3. Equipments and Procedure of each Party. 



Each party was equipped with a set of magnetometers, a 

 chronometer, a tent, a folding soft adapted for bed, a battery of 



