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of latitude work until some international arrange- 

 ment is formulated, the several nations maintain 

 the stations within their domains, and that some 

 provisional arrangement be made for caring for 

 the records, reductions and publications, pending 

 a permanent organization of the work. 



A report of the Committee on Publications, 

 carrying the following recommendation, was 

 approved : 



That all Titles in geophysical subjects should 

 be printed in Science Aistracts, Section A (Phys- 

 ics), probably best under a special, appropriately 

 entitled section, with abstracts of all papers suit- 

 able for this journal and drawn up in accordance 

 with the procedures uniform in. it. 



The appointment of Messrs. Michekon, 

 chairman, Chamberlin, Moulton as a Com- 

 mittee on the Investigation of Earth Tides 

 was approved. 



The question of the formation of a separate 

 group, or " sub-section," to represent geo- 

 chemistry was left to the delegation to 

 Brussels. 



The section adopted the plan for voting at 

 Brussels which had been adopted by the 

 American Section of the proposed Interna- 

 tional Astronomical Union, embodied in the 

 following two motions : 



Moved: That it be the sense of the section that 

 on questions of policy which come up in Brussels 

 a caucus be held and the delegation vote as a unit. 

 Adopted. 



Moved: That it is the opinion of the section if 

 the organization of the union does not conflict that 

 votes on technical matters may be cast by dele- 

 gates designated by the chairman. Adopted. 



A suggestion presented by letter from Dr. 

 W. F. G. Swann, regarding the position of 

 " terrestrial electricity " in the subdivision of 

 the geophysical field was referred for consider- 

 ation to the meetings at Brussels. 



A report of the Committee on the Investi- 

 gation of Earth Tides was read, discussed, ap- 

 proved and referred to the delegation ^for 

 presentation to the Brussels meeting. This 

 report is included here as an appendix. 



Messrs. Henry G. Gale and Wm. D. Mac- 

 Millan were added to the Committee on the 

 Investigation of Earth Tides. 



SECOND SESSION 



Joint Session with American Section, Inter- 

 national Astronomical Union. 



The meeting was presided over by Mr. W. 

 W. Campbell, chairman of the American 

 Section, International Astronomical Union. 



Dr. E. S. Woodward addressed the meeting 

 on the general aspects of geophysics and its 

 affiliations and subsequently prepared an ab- 

 stract of his remarks for the use of the dele- 

 gation at Brussels. 



There was a brief general discussion of the 

 functions of the delegation abroad and of the 

 need of guarding as effectively as possible 

 against legislation tending to exclude any 

 legitimate interests from the international 

 organizations. 



Mr. Leuschner gave an account of the 

 origin, relationships and functions of the pro- 

 posed international cooperative efforts, the 

 progress made toward reorganization, and the 

 further effort required. 



The chairman of the American delegates, 

 Mr. W. W. Campbell, was formally authorized 

 to call joint meetings of the delegations of the 

 Sections in Astronomy and Geophysics at his 

 discretion. 



After discussion of the report of the Com- 

 mittees on the Variation of Latitude, it was 

 stated as the sense of the joint meeting that 

 an international committee to deal with prob- 

 lems of variation of latitude should be formed. 



THIRD SESSION 



The Committee on Nominations for addi- 

 tional members of the section — Mr. Brovm, 

 chairman, presented the following names and 

 these gentlemen were elected: Messrs. C. G. 

 Abbot, L. J. Briggs, A. J. Henry, L. M. 

 Hoskins, C. E. Van Orstrand, J. B. Wood- 

 worth; and upon nomination from the floor, 

 Messrs. A. G. Mayor, E. DeC. Ward and W. J. 

 Peters were also elected. 



For the guidance of the delegates to Brus- 

 sels the document entitled " Proposals for the 

 Convention for an International Union of 

 Geophysics — Approved by the Council of the 

 Royal Society," was read by paragraph and 

 article and votes of instruction were taken. 



