TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 725 



7. Report on Changes of the Land-level of the Pldegrcmn Fields. 

 See Reports, p. 382. 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. Weather Ifaps. Btj W. N. Shaw, F.B.S. 



The author exhibited a set of specimens of the daily weather reports issued by 

 dilferent European and extra-European countries in 1901. The maps of the 

 following countries were shown : — 



ElTKOPEAK. EXTEA-EuEOPEiX. 



Austria. Algeria. 



Bavaria. Australasia. 



Belgium. Canada. 



British Isles. India. 



Denmark. „ Bay of Bengal. 



France. Japan. 



Germany. Mexico. 



Holland. United States. 



Italy. 



Portugal. 



Roumania. 



Russia. 



Saxony. , 



Spain. 



Switzerland. 



2. The National Antarctic Expedition. By Dx'. J. Scott Keltie. 



3. With the ' DiscoverTj' to Madeira. By Dr. H. R. Mill, F.B.S.E. 



4. The Methods and Plans of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. 



By W. S. Bruce. 



5. The Experimental Demonstration of the Curvature of the Earth's Surface. 



By H. Yule Oldham, M.A. 



In 1870 Dr. A. R. Wallace performed his well-known Bedford Level 

 experiment. In the summers of 1900 and 1901 a series of similar experiments was 

 made with the special object of obtaining photographic records of the same. The 

 Bedford Level is a portion of the Fens north of Ely, through which in the 

 seventeenth century two great canals were made, shortening the course of the 

 Ouse. Of these, one, the New Bedford river, is tidal ; the other, the old Bedford 

 river, has locks at each end, and presents long, straight stretches of water without 

 current or tide. The six-mile stretch of the old Bedford river between Welney 



1901. 3 B 



