CONTENTS. 



REPOPTS ON THE STATE OP SCIENCE. 



Page 

 The Further Tabulation of Bessel Functions. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor M. J. M. Hill (Chairman), Dr. J. W. 

 Nicholson (Secretary), Professor Alfred Lodge, and Dr. L. N. G. 

 Filon 37 



Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards far 

 Electrical Measurements. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Lord Rayletgh (Chairman), Dr. R. T. Glazebrook (Secretary), 

 Professors J. Perry, W. G. Adams, and G. Carey Foster, Sir 

 Oliver Lodge, Dr. A. Muirhead, Sir W. H. Preece, Professors A. 

 Schuster, J. A. Fleming, and Sir J. J. Thomson, Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw, Dr. J. T. Bottomley, Rev. T. C. Fitzpatrick, Dr. G. 

 Johnstone Stoney, Professor S. P. Thompson, Mr. J. Rexnie, 

 Principal E. H. Griffiths, Sir Arthur Rucker, Professor H. L. 

 Callendar, and Messrs G. Matthey, T. Mather, and F. F. Smith ... 38 



Appendix.— Order in Council relating to Electrical Standards, 



dated January 10, 1910 40 



Establishing a Solar Observatory in Australia.— Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Sir David Gill (Chairman), Dr. W. G. 

 Duffield (Secretary), Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, Mr. F. McClean, 

 and Professors A. Schuster and H. H. Turner 42 



Seismological Investigations. — Fifteenth Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor H. H. Turner (Chairman), Mr. J. Milne 

 (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. Judd, Professor C. G. Knott, Professor 

 R. Meldola, Mr. R. D. Oldham, Professor J. Perry, Mr. W. E. 

 Plummer, Professor J. H. Poynting, Mr. Clement Reid, and 

 Mr. Nelson Richardson. (Drawn up by the Secretary) 44 



I. General Notes 44 



TI. New Stations 45 



III. Distribution of Earthquakes in 1909 47 



TV. A New Departure in Seismology 48 



V. Changes in Level accompanying certain Earthquakes ... 49 



