PROCEEDINGS FOR 1895 LV 
A note on the “ Jovian Comet Family” was received from Mr. W, 
F. Denning, F.R.A.S., of Bristol, England. A list of the more prominent 
members of this class was appended, with the dates of perihelion passages 
and next returns. 
Mr. 8. E. Peal, F.R.G.S., of Sibsagar, India, who has been for many 
years interested in selenography, contributed a paper on the markings 
seen in Prof. Weinek’s enlargements of the Lick photographs of the 
moon. 
In May, 1894, the late president, Mr. Charles Carpmael, communi- 
cated to the society some memoranda bearing upon the cable records of 
earth-currents and their connection with magnetic disturbances. Records 
obtained at St. Pierre, Miquelon, had been forwarded by Mr. Otto J. 
Klotz, of the department of the interior, who suggested systematic obser- 
vation and comparison. Mr. Carpmael’s communication, the last which 
the society received from its distinguished president, was immediately 
acted upon, and a committee was appointed to investigate generally 
earth-current phenomena and their connection, if such existed, with 
magnetic disturbances, auroral displays, and the phenomena presented 
by the sun’s surface. A circular letter was addressed to the various 
cable and telegraph companies, asking whether they would be willing to 
co-operate in the work and furnish records of earth-currents. A favour- 
able reply was received from Mr. G. G. Ward, vice-president and general 
manager of the Commercial Cable Company of New York, who placed 
the committee in communication with Mr. $8. 8. Dickenson, superintend- 
ent of the company’s station at Canso, N.S. Arrangements for the 
regular transmission of the records were completed in October, 1894, 
since when Mr. Dickenson has each week mailed to Toronto a card con- 
taining the record of the currents, as measured daily at 5 a.m. on three 
cables running in different directions. Recently the company have 
expressed their willingness to still further favour the committee by send- 
ing the siphon record whenever practicable. The Great Northwestern 
Telegraph Company also replied favourably to the committee, and have 
agreed that whenever desired they will furnish a wire after business 
hours, and the committee, supplying the millimeter or such instrument 
as they choose, may make use of the wire until it is again required for 
business. The want of a suitable instrument has caused delay in taking 
advantage of this liberal offer, but a friend having kindly loaned an 
instrument which will answer the purpose, Mr. R. F. Stupart, director of 
the Toronto observatory, and who is also the chairman of the committee, 
will apply for the use of the wire whenever the magnetic instruments at 
the observatory indicate a decided disturbance. Each day the mean 
readings of the various magnetic instruments are charted on millimetre 
paper, and it is proposed whenever an earth-current curve is obtained to 
compare it with the magnetic curves. A tabulated statement of the 
