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NEW COMMITTEES. 



AUSTRALIAN LONGITUDES COMMITTEE. 



The General Council passed the following resolution : — 



That a Committee be appointed with instructions (a) to bring 

 under the notice of the Federal Government the desirability of its 

 providing for a re-determination of the difference of the longitudes of 

 Singapore and Darwin, and of the differences of longitude of the 

 Australian Observatories from each other ; (b) to communicate with 

 the Indian Grovernment with respect to the possibility of re-determining 

 the difference between Madras and Singapore. The Committee to 

 consist of the following : — -Professor David, Professor Masson, Professor 

 Lyle, Mr. Baracchi, Mr. Knibbs. Mr. P. Baracchi to be Secretary. 



MACQUARIE ISLAND COMMITTEE. 



The General Council passed the following resolution : — 

 In view of the already proved importance to pure science, to 

 weather forecasting and to shipping, of the meteorological station and 

 wireless installation at Macquarie Island, it is desirable that a Com- 

 mittee be appointed, with power to add to its numbers, to take all 

 steps necessary to maintain this station on a permanent basis, the 

 Committee to consist* of the following : — Professors H. S. Carslaw, 

 T. W. E. David, H. B. Kirk, T. R. Lyle, W. Baldwin Spencer, J. A. 

 Pollock, Orme Masson, H. J. Priestley, T. H. Laby, Coleridge Farr, 

 Kerr Grant, Woolnough, Dr. E. F. J. Love, Messrs. P. Baracchi, J. M. 

 Baldwin, H. A. Hunt, Griffith Taylor, G. H. Knibbs, A. Hamilton, 

 D. C. Bates, C. Hedley, E. Kidson, Colonel Legge, and J. H. Maiden. 

 Professor David to be Secretary. 



DETERMINATION OF GRAVITY IN CERTAIN CRITICAL 

 LOCALITIES. 



It was resolved to form a Joint Committee of Sections A and C to 

 conduct gravity determinations, determining the gravity by means 

 of pendulum observations in certain critical areas. 



From Section A. — {No names sent in. — Ed.) 



From Section C— Professor T. W. E. David, Mr. W. Howchin, 

 Professor W. G. Woolnough, Mr. H. C. Richards, Mr. W. H. Twelve- 

 trees, Mr. H. Herman. 



Section A having concurred, the sum of £50 voted at the Sydney 

 meeting, 1911, for the investigation of crustal tilt, Geophysical 

 Observatory, at Burrinjuck (Vol. XIII., p. LV.) and not expended, was 

 transferred to the new Committee. 



