48 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
of the Conference.t Vacancies on the Committee to be filled by co- 
optation. 
3. That laboratories equipped with facilities for precise electrical 
measurements and investigations should be asked to co-operate with 
this Committee and to carry out, if possible, such work as it may desire. 
4. The Committee should take the proper steps forthwith for 
establishing the Permanent Commission, and are empowered to arrange 
for the meeting of the next Conference on Electrical Units and Stan- 
dards, and the time and place of such meeting should this action appear 
to them to be desirable. 
5. The Committee or the Permanent International Commission shall 
consider the question of enlarging the functions of the International 
Commission on Weights and Measures, with a view to determining if 
it is possible or desirable to combine future Conferences on Electrical 
Units and Standards with the International Commission on Weights 
and Measures, in place of holding in the future Conferences on Elec- 
trical Units and Standards. At the same time it is the opinion of the 
Conference that the Permanent Commission should be retained as a 
distinct body, which should meet at different places in succession. 
Seismological Investigations.—Fourteenth Report of the Com- 
mittee, consisting of Professor H. H. Turner (Chairman), 
Dr. J. Minne (Secretary), Mr. C. VERNON Boys, Sir GEORGE 
Darwin, Mr. Horace Darwin, Major L. Darwin, Dr. R. T. 
GLAZEBROOK, Mr. M. H. Gray, Professor J. W. Jupp, 
Professor C. G. Knorr, Professor R. Mrenpona, Mr. R. D. 
OLDHAM, Professor J. Perry, Mr. W. E. PrumMer, Professor 
J. H. Poyntine, Mr. CuemMent Rep, and Mr. NELson 
RicHarpson. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
[Puare I.) 
Contents. PAGE. 
I. General Notes : i : 48 
Il. Sites of Stations: Lskdalemuir, Agincourt, Porto Rico, Stonyhuret 49 
Ill. Vhe Large Harthquakes of 1908 . : 51 
IV. Lhe Records of Small Larthquakes from Jamaica . : : $ Quel 
V. Quick Vibrators as applied to Seismometry . 55 
VI. On a possible Synchronism between Seismic Activity in ” Different 
Districts 56 
VII. Zhe Time of Maximum Motion as indicated by three ‘differently 
installed Horizontal Pendulums . . 58 
VIL. he Number of Earthquake Records obtained at British Stations SES 
IX. Luminous Effects obtained from Rock Surfaces . - - 60 
X. A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes . 2 : ; F Js 61 
XI. Developing, Fixing, and Copying a Film . : : . : ey teil 
XII. Catalogue of Chinese Porthgeeteen 1638-1891. By Professor E. H. 
PARKER 4 : 2 - 62 
I. General Notes. 
Last year, early in November, my assistant, Mr. H. C. O’Neill, left 
me for an appointment in London. The last work on which he was 
! With this object the Committee are authorised to issue as an Appendix to 
the Report of the Conference, Notes detailing the methods which have been adopted 
