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Abstract

MEETINGS of two special commissions appointed by the International Meteorological Committee at Paris in 1907 will be held in London during the week commencing Monday next, June 21. The appointment of the first commission arose out of a proposal made at Innsbruck by the Rev. Lowis Froc, S.J., director of the Zi-ka-wei Observatory, for the general adoption of a code of maritime weather signals now in use in far eastern waters, and a further proposal made at Paris by Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, in favour of an international system of maritime weather signals. To this commission the question of an understanding as to the projection and scale of charts for representing marine meteorological data was also referred. It is expected that M. Angot, director of the Bureau Central Metéorologique of Paris; Father Froc, of Zi-ka-wei; Prof. Grossmann, representing Rear-Admiral Herz, director of the Deutsche Seewarte, who is prevented by illness from attending; Prof. Mohn, director of the Meteorological Institute, Christiania; and Prof. Willis Moore, will be present to take part in the meetings. The second commission is appointed to consider international questions concerning weather telegraphy, including wireless telegraphy from ships. The members to be present are Messrs. Angot, Grossmann, and Willis Moore. Both commissions are under the presidency of the director of the Meteorological Office, and the meetings will take place at the office. The commissions will report to the meeting of the International Meteorological Commiffep which is expected to be held in 1910. Some of the visitors will remain to take part in the meetings of the Solar Commission during the week beginning June 28.