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SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT 



Plates 35, 36 



Since the foregoing paper by Professor Vening 

 Meinesz could not be promptly published after he 

 submitted his manuscript, a supplement is needed. 

 The notes that follow do not claim to be exhaustive 

 but they indicate the activity in gravity deter- 

 minations at sea by five different countries. The 

 fundamental significance of such research is force- 

 fully presented by Vening Meinesz in the first 

 jjublication by him cited below. 



After his manuscript was prepared Vening Meinesz 

 himself made a voyage in 1935 on a submarine 



Vening Meinesz, F. A., with collaboration of Urab- 

 grove, J. H. F., and Kuenen, Ph.H., Report of the 

 gravity expedition in the Atlantic of 1932, and the 

 interpretation of the results: Gravity Expeditions 

 at Sea, 1923-1932, vol. 2, pp. 208, 4 pis., text figs., 

 1934. (Publication of Netherl. Geod. Com.) 



Vening Meinesz, F. A., Interpretation of the anomalies 

 of gravity: Hydrogr. Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 

 107-108, May, 1937. (Translated from the French, 

 reproduced from an article published in Bulletin 

 G6od6sique, no. 46, Paris, 1935.) 



Vening Meinesz, F. A., The gravity expedition of Hr. 

 Ms. Submarine O 16 in the north Atlantic, January 



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GRAVITY EXPEDITION 



1936-7 



Fio. 9 



from the Netherlands across the Atlantic to Rio de 

 Janeiro and thence by the Cape of Good Hope and 

 Australia to the East Indies, and in the early 

 months of 1937 he made another voyage across the 

 Atlantic, from the Netherlands by way of the Azores 

 to Chesapeake Bay, and he returned by a more 

 northerly route. Except the indicated itinerary 

 other information on these voyages is not yet 

 available. 



Three publications by Vening Meinesz, one in 

 collaboration with Umbgrove and Kuenen are as 

 follows : 



11-March 16, 1937: Konink. Akad. VVetensch. Am- 

 sterdam, Proc. vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 382-388, 1 chart, 

 1937. 



The chart illustrating the route is reproduced as 

 plate 36. 



It would be interesting to insert here the inter- 

 pretations of the results procured by Professor 

 Vening Meinesz and his associates but that is not 

 now practicable. 



During the winter of 1936-37 there was an expedi- 

 tion on the U. S. Naval Submarine Baracuda to 

 the West Indies. A note on this expedition is 



