XXVII 



SUMMARY OF RESOLUTIONS AFFECTING 

 ■ COMMITTEES OF THE VARIOUS SECTIONS. 



Following are the Resolutions of the General Council so far as they 

 affect the various Sections : — 



Section A. 



1. That as regards the following Committees : — Solar Physics, 



Seismological, Terrestrial Magnetism, Tidal Survey, Physical 

 and Chemical Constants, Longitude, since their methods 

 of working involve international co-operation, these Coni- 

 mittees should be allowed to lapse, and that the responsi- 

 bility for carrying on these researches be transferred to 

 the Australian National Research Council. 



2. That the sum of £50 referred to in the Report of the Secretary 



of the Physical and Chemical Constants Committee be 

 approved, and forwarded to Dr. Marie. 



3. Macquarie Island Committee (Secretary, Professor Sir T. W. 



Edgeworth David, K.B.E., D.S.O.', D.Sc, F.R.S., &c.). 



The Report was adopted, and the names of Professor Sir Baldwin 

 Spencer, K.C.M.G., D.Sc, F.R.S., Sir Douglas Mawson, D.Sc, and 

 Captain J. K. Davis were added to it. The question of re-opening 

 the Wireless Station at Macquarie Island, established there originally 

 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson, 

 with the co-02)eration of the Commonwealth Meteorological Office, has 

 given rise to some difference of opinion, and the Meteorologists now 

 give precedence to the establishment of stations at Kerguelen or the 

 Island of St. Paul. 



In view of the opinions of the Meteorologists, it is considered that 

 the question of re-establishing the Wireless Station on Macquarie 

 Island should for the present be postponed. 



The question of creating a zoological and botanical preserve at 

 Macquarie Island is considered to be worthy of favorable consideration. 



4. Committee for the study of Earth Movements by Horizontal 



Pendulums, formerly the Committee for Determination of 

 Gravity in Certain Critical Localities. 



