COUNCIL — SEPTEMBER 1922 — 34 — 



Report of the Statistical Section. 



The Committee, after a preliminary meeting on Friday at 12 o'clock, met 

 on Saturday at 3.30. There were present Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, M. Lecourbe, 

 Mr. David T. Jones, Mr. Bottemanne, Mr. Ramalho, Sheriff Lyon Mackenzie, 

 Dr. Russell, Mr. Nelson, Dr. Bowman and Captain Schoning. 



The following resolution proposed by Mr. Nelson was unanimously adopted: 



With reference to the resolutions adopted at the meeting of the Council 

 held in 1921 with regard to the use of squared charts it was decided that certain 

 fundamental amendments should be made in paragraphs 1) and 2). (Proc. Verb. 

 XXVII p. 44). As amended the affected paragraphs should now read as follows: 



1) That each region to be divided into squares be known and referred to by the origin of refer- 

 ence which, will be the latitude and longitude of the bottom left-hand corner of the bottom 

 left-hand square. The length of the sides of the bottom left-hand square, or nearly square 

 area, shall also be mentioned in the reference, S to N in minutes of latitude and W to E in 

 minutes of longitude. Thus the squared chart now in use by the Enghsh would be referred 

 to as: — Eef. 51 N, 4 W, 30' X 60'. 



2) That the region be divided by drawing parallels equally spaced North and South of the 

 origin and separated by the number of minutes of latitude given in the reference; and 

 in hke manner- by meridians to East and West. The intervals between the meridians shaU 

 be lettered to the Eastward of the origin by single letters of the alphabet, omitting I and 

 — A, B, C, etc. — and to the Westward by doubled letters of the alphabet reversed, 

 omitting II and 00 — ZZ, YY, XX, etc. — and in the same way, the intervals between 

 the paraUels shall be numbered Northward from the origin by arable numerals — 1, 2, 3, 

 etc. and Southward by numerals starting at 51 — 51, 52, 53, etc. The squares shall then be 

 named by their co-ordinates, A4, D55, etc. 



The Committee proceeded to consider the material available for the next 

 Bulletin Statistique. Capt. Schoning reported that official statistics for 1919 

 were at hand from all countries except Belgium, France, Iceland and Norway; 

 for 1920 from all except Belgium, France, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, 

 the Swedish statistics however being promised shortly; but that for 1921 only 

 statistics from England, Scotland and Holland were yet available. The Committee 

 recommend to the Council that the next Bulletin should contain the statistics for 

 1919 and 1920 and should be published as soon as the necessary material is obtained 

 for those years. 



The Committee discussed informally the question of how in the next Bulletin 

 the difficulties arising from fluctuations of exchange should be dealt with. The 



