268 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
It was decided that, so far as possible, the results of the work of the expedition 
should appear as a uniform series. The Royal Geographical Society were responsible 
for the organisation of a section of the expedition, and papers by Mr. J. A. Steers and 
Mr. Michael Spender were read before the Society and are to be found in the 
Geographical Journal, while the economic researches will be published in Australia. 
Apart from these, however, the series of results are being published by the British 
Museum (Natural History). Application was made by the Committee to the Trustees 
of the British Museum, who most generously agreed to undertake the full publication 
of the work and bear the entire expense so entailed. The reports are appearing in 
quarto form, and it is expected that four volumes will be produced, the first containing 
a preliminary account of the expedition and the physiological researches (those 
conducted by the ‘ Leaders Party’), the second the plankton and hydrographical 
researches (those conducted by the * Boat Party ’), the third the oecological researches 
and work on breeding, development and growth of Corals and other reef organisms 
(conducted by the ‘ Reef Party’). The four volumes are being published concurrently, 
and all the reports are appearing as separata as they are ready; a large number 
have now been published. The Committee wish to place on record their profound 
gratitude to the Trustees of the British Museum for their generous and far-seeing 
action. 
The archives of the Committee and the collections made by the expedition will 
ultimately be deposited in the British Museum (Natural History) with the exception 
of a series of duplicates and some type specimens which are to remain in the Australian 
Museum in Sydney. Although the programme of work did not admit of much time 
being given to faunistic collecting, much assistance was received in this department 
of the expedition’s activities from five members of the Australian Museum, who spent 
varying periods with the expedition, and the very full oecological data accompanying 
the specimens throughout give special value to the collections which have been made. 
The plankton collections made by the Boat Party are of the greatest value as repre- 
senting the first systematic collection of plankton ever made over a period of one year 
in tropical seas and being accompanied by the fullest hydrographical details. 
A most fitting sequel to the work of the expedition in Australia was the formation 
by the Queensland Government of a permanent Marine Biological Service. Mr. 
F. W. Moorhouse, one of the Australian members of the expedition, has been put 
in charge of this, and the huts, equipment and scientific library handed over by the 
expedition to the Queensland Government, in recognition of the indispensable aid 
given by the Government and people of Queensland, form the nucleus of the first 
permanent Marine Laboratory to be established in Australia. 
The Committee do not ask for reappointment, but they resolved that a nucleus 
consisting of the chairman, the secretaries, the treasurer, Dr. Calman and Dr. Yonge, 
should be retained to deal with matters concerning the interests of marine biology 
in the region in which the expedition worked. 
Electrical Terms and Definitions.—Report of Commuttee (Prof. Sir | 
J. B. Henprerson, Chairman; Prof. F. G. Batty and Prof. G. W. O. 
Howe (Secretaries) ; Prof. W. Cramp, Dr. W. H. Eccuss, Prof. C. L. 
Fortescug, Prof. A. E. KENNELLY, Prof. E. W. Marcuant, Dr. A. 
RussELL, Sir F. E. Smire, Prof. L. R. W1LBERFoRcE). 
DvnrinG the past year six members of the Committee have written and circulated theses 
dealing with different aspects of the questions under consideration. The difficulties 
and differences of opinion with which the Committee is concerned are being considered 
and debated in many other countries and by an International Electro-technical 
Commission. All these bodies are finding very great difficulties in arriving at an 
agreed system of definition ; these difficulties are largely due to the different methods — 
by which the subject is approached and treated by physicists and electrical engineers. _ 
A committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Glazebrook, has recently — 
been appointed by the International Union of Physics to consider the same subject 
from the physicist’s point of view. Up to the present the discussion has been mainly 
confined to those engaged in the teaching and practice of electrical engineering, as 
they are faced by the difficulties that arise through the use of terms to which different 
meanings are attached by different schools of physicists and electrical engineers. 
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