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obtained. The cooperation of the members of 

 the board was promised for this work, and it 

 is expected that the institute will take it up 

 soon. 



BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL EXPEDITION 



By an arrangement with the Bermuda 

 Natural History Society, apportunity is of- 

 fered for a limited number of instructors and 

 research students in zoology and botany to 

 spend a few weeks at the Bermuda Biological 

 Station this summer. 



Members of the expedition will saiil from 

 New York on the steamer Bermudian (Quebec 

 Steamship Co.) at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 

 June 19, arriving in Bermuda June 21, and 

 returning will sail on August 7. Those who 

 can not sail on June 19, may do so two weeks 

 later — July 3. 



The expense will be $107 for first-class 

 passage from New York to Bermuda and re- 

 turn, and for board and lodging at the Islands 

 six weeks and five days. For the shorter time 

 — four weeks and five days in Bermuda — the 

 expense will be $90. Payments are to be made 

 to the undersigned, — fifty dollars twenty days 

 before sailing, the balance on arriving in Ber- 

 muda. 



For further information apply to 



E. L. Mark 



109 Ibvino Street, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE 

 COMMITTEE ON SEISMOLOGY 



The initial meeting of the committee on 

 seismology of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, was called to 

 order in the council room of the Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, D. C, at 10 o'clock on April 19, 

 1907. There were present L. A. Bauer, W. 

 W. Campbell, J. P. Hayford, W. H. Hobbs, 

 A. 0. Lawson, C. P. Marvin, W J McGee and 

 H. P. Reid. The members of the committee 

 unable to attend the meeting were C. E. But- 

 ton, G. K. Gilbert, L. M. Hoskins, T. A. 

 Jaggar, Otto Klotz, C. J. Eockwood, Jr., and 

 E. S. Tarr. 



Mr. H. P. Eeid was made temporary chair- 

 man, and in the deliberations of the com- 



mittee which continued throughout the day, 

 the counsel was sought of the heads of the 

 principal government and other bureaus likely 

 to be instrumental in furthering the objects 

 before the committee. O. H. Tittmann, super- 

 intendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey; G. O. Smith, director of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey; C. D. Walcott, secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, and E. S. 

 Woodward, president of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, were all for a portion of 

 the time in attendance upon the meeting and 

 expressed their approval of the plans and 

 purposes of the committee. Willis L. Moore, 

 chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, whose 

 counsel was sought, could not be reached.' 

 The following resolutions were adopted by the 

 committee: (1) In the judgment of the com- 

 mittee its functions should be regarded as 

 initiatory and advisory. (2) In the judgment 

 of the committee the time has come for asking 

 the support of the federal government in 

 seismological work. (3) This seismological 

 work requires a cooperation of the various 

 scientific bureaus of the government. (4) The 

 appropriations for seismological stations 

 should be made through the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, and the results of the observations 

 should appear in its publications. (5) A sub- 

 committee of three, to include the chairman of 

 the committee, should confer with the chief 

 of the Weather Bureau, the superintendent of 

 the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the direc- 

 tor of the Geological Survey with reference 

 to framing the legislation providing for seis- 

 mological stations and the publication of ob- 

 servations, as recommended in the preceding 

 resolution. 



A permanent organization of the committee 

 was effected by the election of H. P. Eeid, 

 chairman, and William H. Hobbs, secretary. 



The following subconmiittees were named: 

 (1) A committee to determine the best form or 

 forms of seismograph for the seismological 

 stations to be established — Messrs. Eeid, Mar- 

 vin and Bauer. (2) A committee of three 

 members with power to add to its number, 

 to report as to what action is deemed desirable 



^ Chief Moore later expressed his hearty ap- 

 proval of the committee's plans. 



