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CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



According to the method of organization and the interpretation put upon 

 the office of secretary, it is expected that the affairs of the unions and sec- 

 tions, between the triennial meetings of the General Assembly, will be largely 

 conducted by the respective secretaries, as is the case also with regard to the 

 general secretaryship of the International Research Council, to which Pro- 

 fessor Arthur Schuster was reelected. 



Section. 



President. 



Vice-President. 



Secretary and Director 

 Central Bureau. 



a. Geodesy . . . . 



b. Seismology . 



c. Meteorology 



d. Terrestrial Magnet- 

 ism and Electric- 

 ity. 



e. Physical Oceanog- 

 raphy. 



/. Volcanology^. 



William Bowie 



(U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey.) 



Organization deferred 



Sir Napier Shaw 



(British Meteoro- 

 logical Office.) 



A. Tanakadate 



(University of To- 

 kyo.) 



A. Riccd 



(Observatory Etna, 

 Sicily.) 



Vincenzo Reina 



(Italian Geodetic 

 Commission.) 



A. Angot 



(French Meteoro- 

 logical Bureau.) 



Charles Chree 



(Kew Observa- 

 torj'.) 



H. Lamb 



(University of 

 Manchester.) 



H. S. Washington 



(CarnegieGeophy- 

 sical Laboratory.) 



Lt. Col. G. Perrier. 

 (Army Geographic 

 Service, Paris.) 



C. F. Marvin. 



(U.S. Weather Bu- 

 reau.) 



Louis A. Bauer. 

 (Carnegie Depart- 

 ment of Terres- 

 trial Magnetism.) 



G. P. Magrini. 



(Hydrographic Of- 

 fice, Venice.) 



A. Malladra. 



(Vesuvius Obser- 

 vatory.) 



* Professor Ricco died since the meeting of the Union, and the position of president of the 

 section has not yet been filled. — L. A. B., Nov. 8, 1919. 



At a preliminary meeting of the section on Meteorology, under the chair- 

 manship of Colonel Lyons, in the absence of Sir Napier Shaw, a brief discus- 

 sion was held with regard to the work of the section. The general opinion 

 was that as the meteorological committee of weather bureaus must necessarily 

 concern itself primarily with official and administrative matters, there would 

 be abundant opportunity for useful work of the section along broad investi- 

 gational lines. Two general resolutions to the following effect were passed : 



(a) The hope is expressed that there be appointed a joint committee of the 

 International Astronomical Union and of the Section of Meteorology of the 

 International Geodetic and Geophysical Union for investigational work on 

 solar radiation. 



(6) That international work in atmospheric electricity, as far as possible, 

 be placed under the direction of a committee nominated partly by the Section 

 of Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity, and partly by the Section of Meteor- 

 ology. 



The work of section (d) (Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity) could be 

 more completely organized than that of the other sections, as it happened that 

 there were present at Brussels six members of the pre-war International 

 Magnetic Commission of the International Meteorological Committee, viz, 

 Angot (France), Bauer (U. S. A.), Chree (England), Palazzo (Italy), Schuster 

 (England), and Tanakadate (Japan). After the election of the officers on 



