216 HENRY A. ROWLAND 



II. (a) atmospheric electricity. 



(&) protection against damage from telegraphic and telephonic 

 wires (pa ratonn erres) . 



(c) terrestrial currents on telegraphic lines. 



(d) the establishment of an international telemeteorographic 



line. 



III. Determination of a standard of light. 



The study of atmospheric electricity was proposed to the congress by 

 Mr. Rowland. After hearing his paper on this subject, the section to 

 which he belonged adopted on his motion the following resolution which 

 was subsequently approved by the entire congress. 



Resolved that an international commission be charged with determin- 

 ing the precise methods of observation for atmospheric electricity, in 

 order to generalize this study on the surface of the globe. 



As Mr. Eowland did not retain his manuscript, the foregoing trans- 

 lation of the paper as it is printed in the Comptes Rendus of the con- 

 gress has been made b} r Mr. P. B. Marcou and is printed here with the 

 author's consent.] 



