REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, 
Etc. 
SEISMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. 
Thirty-ninth Report of Committee (Dr. F. J. W. WuippLe, Chairman; 
Mr. J. J. SHaw, C.B.E., Secretary ; Prof. P. G. H. BosweELt, O.B.E., 
F.R.S., Dr. C. VERNON Boys, F.R.S., Sir F. W. Dyson, K.B.E., 
F.R.S., Dr. Witrrep Hatt, Dr. H. Jerrreys, F.R.S., Sir H. Lams, 
F.R.S., Mr. A. W. Lee, Prof. H. M. MacponaLp, F.R.S., Prof. E. 
A. Ming, M.B.E., F.R.S., Mr. R. D. OLpHam, F.R.S., Prof. H. H. 
PiaskeETT, Prof. H. C. Plummer, F.R.S., Prof. A. O. RANKINE, O.B.E., 
F.R.S., Rev. J. P. Rowranp, S.J., Mr. D. H. Sapier, Prof. R. A. 
Sampson, F.R.S., Mr. F. J. Scrasz, Dr. H. Suaw, Sir FRANK E. 
SmiTH, K.C.B., C.B.E., Sec.R.S., Dr. R. STONELEY, Mr. E. TiLtort- 
SON, Sir G. T. Waxker, C.S.I., F.R.S.). 
Organisation —The first care of this Committee has for many years been 
the maintenance of the International Seismological Summary, and it was 
with great satisfaction that the Committee learned in the autumn of 1933 
that the University of Oxford had agreed to house and pay part of the 
operating expenses of the I.S.S. for such time as the remaining costs of 
the Summary were met from sources outside the University. The Com- 
mittee decided that the balance in the general account on June 30, 1933, 
should be transferred to the Observatory. A sum of £75 received under 
the terms of the will of the late Dr. J. Crombie was transferred at the same 
time. Further, the grant of £100 from the Caird Fund of the British 
Association was allotted to the Observatory. 
The financial arrangements for the International Seismological Summary 
were the subject of much discussion at the Lisbon meeting of the Seismo- 
logical Association of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics. 
A special grant equivalent to £150 was made by the Association and the 
need for additional assistance was brought to the notice of the Union. 
The Bureau of the Union is now fully aware of the situation and it is hoped 
will be able to give liberal assistance. To provide, however, for the work 
of the next two years up to the next meeting of the Union the help of the 
British Association is required. The Committee is allotting £100 from the 
Gray-Milne Fund and submits an application for a like sum from the 
Association, i.e., for grants of £50 for two years. 
In 1933 the honorary degree of M.A. was conferred by the University 
of Oxford on Miss E. F. Bellamy in recognition of her valuable services to 
Astronomy and Seismology. Congratulations will be offered by seismo- 
logists in all parts of the world, who have good reason to appreciate the 
efficiency of the staff of the University Observatory. 
Travel times of earthquake waves—The work summarised by Messrs. 
Jeffreys and Bullen in the last Report on the travel times of earthquake 
Waves was communicated by Dr. Jeffreys to the International Seismological 
Association and will be published shortly by the Association, part of the 
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