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SCIENCE 



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Vice-President 



a. Geodesy . 



b. Seismology. . 



c. Meteorology 



d. Terrestrial Magnetism 



and Electricity. . . . 



e. Physical Oceanogra- 



piiy 



William Bowie (U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey) 

 Organization deferred 

 Sir Napier Shaw ( British 

 Meteorological Office) 



A. Tanakadate (Univer- 

 sity of Tokyo) 



/. Vulcanology 



A. Eicco (Observatory 

 Etna, Sicily) 



Vincenzo Eeina (Italian 

 Geodetic Commission) 



A. Angot (French Me- 

 teorological Bureau) 



Charles Chree (Kew Ob- 

 servatory) 



H. Lamb (University of 

 Manchester) 



H. S. Washington (Car- 

 negie Geophysical La- 

 boratory ) 



Lt. Col. G. Perrier (Army 

 Geographic Service, 

 Paris) 



C. F. Marvin (U. S. Weather 

 Bureau) 



Louis A. Bauer (Carnegie 

 Department of Terrestrial 

 Magnetism) 



G. P. Magrini (Hydi'ograpic 

 Office, Venice ) 



A. Malladra (Vesuvius Ob- 

 servatory) 



and Mr. G. W. Littlehales (U. S. Hydro- 

 grapbic Office) were made additional members 

 of the executive committee of that section. 



The officers of the International Union of 

 Geodesy and Geophysics are: President, M. 

 Charles Lallemand (director, Levelling Serv- 

 ice, France) ; general secretary, Colonel H. G. 

 Lyons (Army Meteorological Service, Great 

 Britain). These two officers, with the addition 

 of the presidents of the Sections, who are the 

 vice-presidents of the Union, constitute the 

 Executive Committee of the Union. 



According to the method of organization and 

 the interpretation put upon the office of secre- 

 tary, it is expected that the afEairs of the 

 unions and sections, between the triennial 

 meetings of the General Assembly, will be 

 largely conducted by the respective secretaries, 

 as is the case also with regard to the general 

 secretaryship of the International Research 

 Council, to which Professor Arthur Schuster 

 was reelected. Thus, according to the official 

 or French version of the statutes of the Union, 

 which were made to conform to those of the 

 council, the secretary's duties are defined as 

 follows : 



The secretary of a section shall act as director 

 of its central 'bureau. He shall be responsible for 

 the conduct of correspondence, the management of 

 the resources, the custody of the documents, the 

 preparation and issue of publications and such 

 other matters as the General Assembly may refer 

 to him. 



former International Geodetic Association, it 

 was decided to defer the appointment of com- 

 mittees and the organization of international 

 research work in geodesy until the next general 

 meeting (1922) of the Union, or until some 

 previous special meeting. At a joint meeting 

 of geophysicists and astronomers it was finally 

 decided to leave to the International Astro- 

 nomical Union the future international varia- 

 tion-of-latitude observations. 



Section (c) (Meteorology) it was generally 

 agreed could usefully and effectively supple- 

 ment, by confining its work to research and 

 fundamental problems in meteorology, the 

 functions and work of the pre-war Interna- 

 tional Meteorological Committee. The latter, 

 as it consisted of official weather-bureau direct- 

 ors, necessarily had to concern itself primarily 

 with administrative and official meteorological 

 questions. In the unavoidable absence of the 

 elected president. Sir Napier Shaw, no organi- 

 zation of work was attempted except the pass- 

 ing of two resolutions to the following effect : 



{a) That there be appointed a Joint Committee 

 of the International Astronomical Union and of the 

 Section of Meteorology of the International Geo- 

 detic and Geophysical Union for investigational 

 work on solar radiation. 



(6) That international work in atmospheric elec- 

 tricity, as far as possible, be placed under the di- 

 rection of a committee nominated partly by the 

 Section of Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity 

 and partly by the Section of Meteorology. 



Organization of Worh. — In section (a) The work of section {d) (Terrestrial Mag- 



(Geodesy), which is to take the place of the netism and Electricity) could be more com- 



