INVESTir.ATIONS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. 839 



CepLaluitoda (Dr. W. E. Hoyle), Pisces (Mr. C, Tate Regan), lia\e so far 

 been sent out, l)ut most groups of bottom-living animals should be ready 

 to place in the hands of specialists before the end of the year. The 

 plankton (pelagic fauna) comprises upwards of six hundred Ijottles, and 

 has not as yet been sni-ted in any way. 



Arrangements for publication ha\e been made with the Linnajan 

 Society, whereby a series of volumes of its Transactions will lie retained 

 for the results of the expedition. During the course of the expedition 

 reports of its progress were published in 'Nature,' vol. 71, p. .^)62, vol. 

 72, pp. 341 and 571, vol. 7:^>, pp. -i'^, 184 and 294 ; and a longer account of 

 the geography of the Indian Ocean is in the press for the ' Journal of the 

 Royal Geographical Society.' 



In addition to the grant from the British Association, the expedition 

 has received financial as.sistance from the managers of the Francis Mait- 

 land Balfour and the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Funds. Its publica- 

 tions will be associated with the name of the latter trust. It owes the 

 use of H.M.S. 'Sealark 'to the Admiralty, and it has been largely rided in 

 many ways by the present hydrographer. Rear- Admiral A. ]\Iostyn Field. 

 All the topographical work was undertaken by Commander J^oyle T. Somer- 

 ville and the officers of H.M.S. 'Sealark,' as well as the obser\ations on 

 magnetics, variation, tides, and temperatures. Mr. Bainbrigge Fletcher, 

 paymaster, assisted in all the land collecting, and is respcmsible for work- 

 ing out the Lepidoptera. Surgeon Simpson undertook the land plants. 

 In the Seychelles we were largely assisted by his Excellency the Governor 

 (W. Ij. Davidson, Esq.) in seeing different islands, and by Mr. H. P. 

 Thomasset in land collecting. The expedition, too, met with hospitality 

 and assistance from the managei-s of most of the i.slands which it visited. 



Tiitsrnational Trade Stafistics. — Third llcjinrt nf fhr Camwiftrr, 

 comintinii of Dr. E. Cannan (Chairmav), Mr. H. 0. Mehedith 

 (I'^eirefan/), Messrs. W. G. S. Adams and A. L. Bowley, 

 rrofes.sor S. J. Chapman, Professor H. E. S. Fremantle, and Sir 

 Rop.ERT GiFFEN, appoinfed to conmlcr the Arcnraci/ and Oomjmr- 

 (dnUtij 'of Brlthli and ForeAfjn Statistir^ of Tnternatioval Trade. 



The Committee are now investigating the manner in which inferences 

 drawn from published statistics as to the development of the foreigix 

 trade of the principal industi'ial countries (viz., France, Germany, Great 

 Britain, and the United States) are affected by price changes and 

 alter.ations in the volume of unrecorded transactions. 



If reappointed, the Committee hope next year to report fully on this 

 pai-t of the subject, and to sum up the results of the work already 

 reported upon (see Reports for 1904 and 190.")), 



StamlardjiKation in British Mnqineeviiui Pmctice. 

 By Sir John Wolfe-Barry* K.G.B., F.R.S. 



[Ordered by the General Committee to be printed //; e.rtejiso.] 

 In treating of the subject of Standardisation in Engineering practice, a 

 place of honour must be accorded to Sir Joseph Whitworth, who was 

 mainly instruanental in bringing home to the engineering world the 



