70 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1914. 
additional grant was made from the funds of the Royal Meteorological 
Society to enable simultaneous observations to be made by Dr. W. 
Rosenhain, of the National Physical Laboratory, on the journey via 
the Suez Canal. A report on the observations is in preparation and 
will be published in due course. 
The report by Mr. G. I. Taylor on the observations which he made 
on board the Scotia in 1918, referred to in the Committee’s report last 
year, has been published in the official account of the results of the 
Scotia Expedition, issued by the Board of Trade. The results which 
Mr. Taylor obtained throw much light on the formation of fog and 
on the propagation of heat through the atmosphere by means of eddies. 
He found generally that thick fogs were associated with a large increase 
in the temperature of the air in a vertical direction, while light fogs 
occurred when the increase was small. 
The Committee records with regret the death during the year of 
Mr. Douglas Archibald, who was one of the earliest investigators of 
the upper air by means of kites, and had served on the Committee 
since its appointment at Glasgow in 1901. 
The Committee asks for reappointment, with a grant of 2651. 
Radiotelegraphic Investigations.—Interim Report of the Com- 
mittee, consisting of Sir OLIVER LODGE (Chairman), Dr. W. H. 
Kccues (Secretary), Mr. StpNey G. Brown, Dr. C. CHREE, 
Professor A. 8. Eppineton, Dr. ERSKINE-MuRRAY, Professors 
J. A. FLEMING, G. W. O. Howe, and H. M. Macpona.p, 
Sir H. Norman, Captain H. R. Sankey, Professor A. 
ScHUSTER, Dr. W. N. SHaw, and Professor S. P. THOMPSON. 
THE past year has been occupied mainly by the designing, printing, 
and distribution of books of forms for recording observations, by the 
enrolment of observers, and by the preliminary work in connection with 
the observations to be made during the forthcoming solar eclipse. 
I. Collection of Ordinary Duily Statistics. 
We have obtained the cordial support of many Government Depart- 
ments of the British Empire and of other countries. In the British 
Empire the Navy has taken forms sufficient to distribute to about 
120 ships. The Post Office has sent forms to nine stations. The 
Government of Canada have undertaken to get statistics from four 
stations on the Pacific Coast. The South African Government have 
authorised the collection of statistics at Cape Town and Durban. The 
Australian Government have brought eight stations into the scheme, and 
the New Zealand Government and the Indian Government each several 
stations. The Colonial Office has kindly circularised other of the 
Colonies, and of these the following have already replied favourably, and 
have had supplies of forms despatched to them :— 
Falkland Islands. Zanzibar. British Guiana. 
Bahamas Somaliland. Jamaica. 
Trinidad. Fiji. Sierra Leone. 
Ceylon. Gold Coast. 
