258 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 



Plaskett, was appointed in 1931 and has recently taken up his duties. Prof. 

 Plaskett, who has been co-opted as a member of the Committee, is anxious 

 that the seismological department of the Observatory shall remain a centre 

 of the international organisation. 



For the present satisfactory position of the work much credit is due to 

 Mr. F. A. Bellamy, who has been in charge of the Observatory for two 

 years, to Miss E. F. B. Bellamy, who has been editor of the Summary, 

 to Mr. J. S. Hughes, who has been responsible for the determination of 

 epicentres and the preparation of the manuscript, and to Mr. S. C. Cook, who 

 has served as computer. 



Responsibility for the financial arrangements for the production of the 

 Summary has remained with the British Association Seismological Com- 

 mittee. The funds allotted by the International Seismological Association 

 (to give the Seismological Section of the International Union for Geodesy 

 and Geophysics its new name) have not sufficed hitherto to pay the cost of 

 printing the Summary. During the year under review the International 

 Seismological Association has provided £259, whilst the cost of printing 

 four quarters of the International Seismological Summary has been £351. 

 The British Association placed £250 at the disposal of the Committee, £150 

 from general funds and £100 from the Caird Fund. Roughly speaking, the 

 £100 served to meet the deficit on the printing of the Summary, whilst the 

 £150 was used for computing and for incidental expenses. The principal 

 part of the cost of the preparation of the Summary was borne by the 

 University of Oxford, generous assistance being given, however, by Dr. J. 

 Crombie. 



The Committee is informed that, for the present, no increase in the sub- 

 vention from the International Seismological Association towards the cost 

 of the International Seismological Summary is to be anticipated. It is 

 found that considerable economy can be effected by adopting the ' Replika ' 

 process for reproducing the Summary, the cost of setting up the matter in 

 printer's type being obviated. On the other hand, additional expenses must 

 be incurred at Oxford. 



In accordance with a resolution adopted by the Council in 19 14, an annual 

 grant of £100 is made to the Committee from the Caird Fund. To meet 

 the special expenses of the year the Committee asks for an additional grant 

 of £100. 



The Committee is most anxious for the international seismological work 

 to be maintained at Oxford, where it is so well organised, and hopes that, 

 before the International Seismological Association meets next year, it will 

 be possible to announce that the Seismological Department of the University 

 Observatory has been put on a permanent footing. This will be the best 

 way of recognising the part played by British scientists, by Mallet, Knott, 

 Ewing, Oldham, Rayleigh, Love, Davison, and especially by Milne and 

 Turner, in the development of seismology. The Committee would cordially 

 welcome any proposal which might be made by the University of Oxford 

 for establishing a Readership in Geophysics. No better memorial of the 

 work of Prof. H. H. Turner could be conceived. 



The International Seismological Summary and the Revised 

 Seismological Tables. 



Three quarterly issues of the International Seismological Summary were 

 made during the year ending June 1932, those for the last quarter of 1927 

 and the first two quarters of 1928. The Summary for the third quarter of 



