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Abstract

DR. G. C. SIMPSON, F.R.S., Meteorologist to the Government of India, has been appointed Director of the Meteorological Office as successor to Sir Napier Shaw, who retires on reaching the age-limit after brilliant pioneer service. Dr. Simpson was meteorologist and physicist to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and served on the Indian Munitions Board from 1917 to 1919. In 1905 he was appointed Scientific Assistant in the Meteorological Office, and 1906 joined the staff of the Indian Meteorological Department. He is the author of a number of papers of scientific importance, including one on the electricity of rain and its origin in thunderstorms, published in the Phil. Trans. in 1909. Only last year Dr. Simpson completed an elaborate discussion of the meteorological work of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13. As successor to Sir Napier Shaw his appointment promises a continuation of progress along lines which will advance meteorological science and maintain the high position which the British Meteorological Office now occupies through its work in recent years.