ON RADIOTELEGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS. 71 
The Government of Norway have agreed to have statistics collected 
at four stations; the United States Government at five; in Germany 
the Telegraphs Versuchsamt is making observations at Berlin, and 
there are some Russian Government stations likely to co-operate. 
The following Companies are taking a prominent part in the collec- 
tion of statistics: The Marconi International Marine Communication 
Company, Litd., have already twenty-three ships at work; the Marconi 
Company of Canada have thirteen stations at work on the East Coast of 
Canada, in Newfoundland and on the Great Lakes ; the American Mar- 
coni Company have put fifteen land stations (between Alaska and the 
Gulf of Mexico) to work, and several ships; the Federal Wireless Tele- 
graph Company of America have started observations at their San 
Francisco station; the Gesellschaft fiir drahtlose Telegraphie will put a 
considerable number of stations to work as soon as forms have been 
translated, and they have the intention of establishing a small prize 
scheme amongst their operators for the best series of observations. At 
the Slough station the Anglo-French Wireless Company started obser- 
vations which will be continued by the Galletti Company; while the 
English Marconi Company are doing the like at Chelmsford. 
With regard to Russia, the language difficulty was likely to prove 
formidable, but the Editor of the Russian ‘ Journal of Wireless Tele- 
graphy ’ has arranged that the forms be translated into Russian and 
that the collection of statistics be urged upon readers of his Journal. 
The Société Russe de Télégraphes et Téléphones sans Fil have agreed 
that the forms, when translated, shall be used at a number of the 
stations under the control of the Company in Russia. 
Among private experimenters of note we have obtained the support 
of several gentlemen abroad, who will doubtless have to be mentioned 
in subsequent reports. There are also a number of Professors in the 
British Isles and in the Colonies helping, and about sixty-one amateurs. 
Of these there are thirty-six in England, two in Scotland, six in Ireland, 
and one in Wales. 
A considerable number of completed forms have already come to 
hand and a start has been made on the analysis. 
Il. Observations to be made during the Eclipse of August 21, 1914. 
The central line of the eclipse passes across Norway, Sweden, the 
Baltic, Central Russia, the Black Sea, and Persia, to the coast of India. 
Accordingly, the Governments of Norway, Sweden, Russia, and India 
have been approached. The Norwegian Government have generously 
placed practically all their stations at the disposal of the Committee ; 
the Swedish Government have agreed that the observations they wish to 
make on their own behalf shall be made in accord with the programme 
of the Committee, to whom copies will be supplied; and the Russian 
Government will set a number of stations to work, but the number and 
position of these have not yet been settled. The Société Russe will place 
their high-power station at St. Petersburg at the disposal of the Com- 
mittee, and the Gesellschaft fiir drahtlose Telegraphie is also willing 
to allow two or three large stations to come into the scheme. This 
