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to observing throughout Manchuria at points on the various railway 

 lines. Upon concluding this work, he was to proceed to Chungking 

 and undertake, if conditions permitted, an extended expedition across 

 Yunnan into Kwangsi Province. Before setting out on his Man- 

 churia campaign, Mr. Brown established new stations at Peking and 

 Tientsin, observed at Lwanchow, Pehtaiho, and Funinghsien, and 

 reoccupied Shanhaikwan in Chihh Province. At the end of August 

 he had occupied 21 stations in Manchuria, 2 of which were repeat 

 stations. 



During this period Dr. Edmunds traversed northern Shansi west- 

 ward from Tatungfu to Hokow on the Yellow River, which he de- 

 scended to Tungkwanting and thence traveled overland southward to 

 the basin of the Han River, and down the latter to Hankow, where he 

 arrived on September 9. From Hankow he proceeded direct to Peking, 

 thence to Tientsin and Pehtaiho, where he expected to meet Mr. 

 Brown early in October and arrange for the campaign in western 

 China. During this trip 19 magnetic stations were occupied. 



AUSTRALASIA. 



Observer W. C. Parkinson left Sydney, Australia, on October 13, 

 1915, and during the period October 13 to December 24, 1915, estab- 

 lished a series of magnetic stations along the coast of British New 

 Guinea and the outlying islands to the eastward, also occupying a 

 station at Rabaul, New Britain. He returned to Sydney on Decem- 

 ber 24, and after securing at the Red Hill Observatory a series of 

 intercomparisons with Observer H. E. Sawyer's instruments and 

 attending to various official matters, he left for Lyttelton, New Zea- 

 land, on February 17, 1916. In consultation with Professor C. C. 

 Farr, of Canterbury College, and Mr. H. F. Skey, director of the 

 Christchurch Magnetic Observatory, a program of 11 stations in New 

 Zealand was arranged for and carried out during March and April. 

 During April and May Mr. Parkinson assisted Captain Ault in the 

 work of the Carnegie at Lyttelton, New Zealand, besides completing 

 the computations of his own observations. On May 10, 1916, Mr. 

 Parkinson left Lyttelton for Perth, Western Australia, taking a short 

 vacation en route at Sydney. He arrived in Perth on June 8, and 

 took up the work in connection with the examination of suitable sites 

 in southwestern Australia for the Department's proposed magnetic 

 observatory. On August 2, 1916, Magnetician W. F. WaUis arrived 

 at Perth, and since that date Mr. Parkinson has been a member of his 

 observatory party. As the result of examinations of various sites, a 

 location for the magnetic observatory was chosen by Mr. WaUis near 

 Marchagee, about 150 miles north of Perth, Australia. 



Observer H. E. Sawyer was detached from sea duty aboard the 

 Carnegie at Lyttelton, New Zealand, on December 6, 1915, in order to 



