REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, 
Etc. 
SEISMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. 
Thirty-eighth Report of Committee (Dr. F. J. W. WuippLe, Chairman ; 
Mr. J. J. SHaw, C.B.E., Secretary ; Prof. P. G. H. Boswe tu, O.B.E., 
F.R.S., Dr. C. VeRNoN Boys, F.R.S., Sir F. W. Dyson, K.B.E., 
F.R.S., Dr. WiLFrep Hatt, Dr. H. Jerrreys, F.R.S., Sir H. Lams, 
F.R.S., Mr. A. W. Les, Prof. H. M. Macpona.p, F.R.S., Prof. E. 
A. Mine, M.B.E., F.R.S., Mr. R. D. O_pHam, F.R.S., Prof. H. H. 
PLaskETT, Prof. H. C. Plummer, F.R.S., Prof. A. O. RANKINE, 
O.B.E., Rev. J. P. Row.anp, S.J., Prof. R. A. Sampson, F.R.S., 
Mr. F. J. Scrase, Dr. H. SHaw, Sir Frank E. Smitu, K.C.B.,C.B.E., 
Sec.R.S., Dr. R. SToNELEY, Mr. E. TILLotson, Sir G. T. WALKER, 
©Si3 F:R:S.), 
Dr. }. E. Crombie—In August 1932 the Committee lost one of its most 
valued members by the death of Dr. J. E. Crombie, who had served since 
1915. He was a practical seismologist and maintained in turn in his beau- 
tiful home near Aberdeen seismographs of several patterns, the last one 
being a Milne-Shaw. In 1919 when a home had to be found for the seis- 
mological equipment and library from Milne’s station at Shide in the Isle 
of Wight, Dr. Crombie provided funds, which were, after some delay, 
devoted to paying part of the cost of a well-schemed extension of the Uni- 
versity Observatory at Oxford. It was his generous help that enabled Prof. 
Turner to continue the international seismological work through the years 
of financial stringency. Dr. Crombie was a man of many interests, and 
served well his University and the City of Aberdeen. His memory is held 
in honour by his colleagues on the Seismological Committee. 
By his will Dr. Crombie provided that on the death of his wife his trustees 
should allocate the sum of £1,000 free of Government duties to the Seismo- 
logical Committee of the British Association ‘ to be applied towards assisting 
in the investigation of seismological research.’ 
Dr. Crombie’s seismographs were bequeathed to the University of 
Aberdeen. The Milne-Shaw seismograph has been set up for trial in a 
cellar at King’s College, Aberdeen. An Agamennone seismograph has been 
presented to the Science Museum, South Kensington, which already had a 
Mainka seismograph given by Dr. Crombie. His other Mainka seismograph 
remains at Aberdeen. 
Finance-—The Accounts for the year ending June 30, 1933, differ in 
several respects from those for the preceding year. The new scale of sub- 
scriptions adopted by the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics 
in 1930 came into force in 1932 and in spite of prognostications, on which 
the statement in the last report ‘no increase in the subvention from the 
International Seismological Association towards the cost of the International 
Seismological Summary is to be anticipated ’ was based, there has been an 
increase from £259 to £404. In view of this increase, the Committee was 
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