5 3 2 D O C . 331 O N B R E A OF M E T E O R O L O G Y — 57 — Austria : Archives of the Province of Lower Austria. Archives of the Canons of Klosterncuburg. Archives of the Reigning House of the Princes of Liechtenstein. Family Archives of the House of the Counts Harrach. Archiepiscopal Archives, Vienna. Hofkammcr Archives, Vienna. Court Royal House and State Archives, Vionna. Archives of Salzburg. State Archives of the Ministries of the Interior and of Justice. War Archives. Archives of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter, Salzburg. Archives of Linz. National Library. Hungary : State National Archives. Archives of the Hungarian National Museum. Archives of Chapter Houses aud Convents. Archives of the Benedictine Abbey, Pannonhalma. Finland : State Archives, Helsingfors. Switzerland : Cantonal Archives of Frauenfeld. Cantonal Archives of Bellinzona. Cantonal Archives of Valais. Cantonal Archives of Lausanne. Germany : State Archives, Gotha. State Archives of the City of Hamburg. Prussian State Archives, Berlin. Wurtemberg State Archives, Stuttgart. Secret State Archives, Berlin. Hesse State Archives, Darmstadt. Bavarian State Archives, Munich. 5 - List of Notable Works. This list was drawn up by the Information Section of the International Institute for Intellectual Co-operation. Annex 2. C.I.C.I. 180. QUESTION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY. Report by the Sub-Committee appointed at the Meeting of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation on July 29th, 1925, submitted to the Committee on July 26th, 1926. At the Sixth Session of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, held at Geneva from July 27th to July 29th, 1925, the Chairman communicated to the Committee a proposal submitted by M. van Everdingen, Director of the Netherlands Meteorological Observatory and Chairman of the International Meteorological Committee (I.M.C.), with regard to the creation of an International Bureau of Meteorology (I.B.M.) (Annex 4 to document C.445, M.165 1925). After a brief discussion, the Committee requested the undersigned to consider, together with M. van Everdingen and several other experts, how the Committee might assist in estab- lishing this Bureau. The present report sets out our conclusions. [i]

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D O C . 331 O N B R E A OF M E T E O R O L O G Y 533 - 5 8 - M. van Everdingen's proposal was defined in a letter which General Delcambre, Director of the French Meteorological Service and Chairman of a special Committee 1 set up by the [2] International Meteorological Committee, addressed officially to the International Institute for Intellectual Co-operation on November 23rd, 1925. The International Meteorological Committee is composed of the directors of the meteoro- logical services of thirty countries (including Germany and Austria), who meet once every three years to discuss scientific problems of international importance — a definition which covers almost every meteorological problem. The members of this Committee are not official representatives of their countries, and the Committee possesses no financial resources. After a preliminary interview with M. van Everdingen, it was decided that the Sub- Committee should co-opt as experts the members of the special Committee appointed by the International Meteorological Committee. With a view to achieving a satisfactory result as soon as possible, a meeting of the Sub-Committee and the experts was held directly after the meeting of the experts to discuss a draft prepared by General Delcambre. These two meetings took place on March 27th and March 29th, 1926, at Paris. At the [3] first meeting, the technical side of the question was discussed and General Delcambre's draft was approved with certain alterations. Finally, the experts drew up a restricted programme, on the basis of which a start could be made, and prepared, in the order of their importance, the following list of the various desiderata to be attained : (а) Administration of the archives of the national Meteorological Committees and a secretariat of the Committee to maintain relations with international organs interested in meteorology. (b) Bibliography and retrospective international publications (maps of the Northern Hemisphere, experimental balloons, aeronautical climatology). (c) Organisation of the ocean meteorological system assistance in radio-meteoro- logical centralisation and preservation of extracts from ships' logs. The experts estimate that the minimum cost of carrying out points (a) and (b) of the restricted programme would be 100,000 to 150,000 gold francs. These were the conclusions submitted at the meeting on March 29th, at which were present : M. Lorentz, Mme. Curie, M. Einstein, M. Luchaire the experts Messrs. Delcambre, van Everdingen, Simpson, Carvalho, Brandao, J. Bjerknes, Werhlé M. Roper, representing the International Commission for Air Navigation (I.C.A.N.), and M. de Vos van Steenwyck, whom the Committee of Experts had co-opted to maintain relations with the International Institute for Intellectual Co-operation. M. Lorentz presided over the meeting. [4] The Chairman proposed that they should not deal with the technical questions, which has been fully discussed at the former meeting. The experts, he pointed out, were unanimous in endorsing the utility of the proposed organisation, and it would not therefore be necessary to go into details. It would be sufficient for them to consider the relations to be established between the future Bureau and the League of Nations through the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation. The moral support of this Committee might already be regarded as assured. The most urgent question was that of obtaining the material resources necessary for the creation and working of the International Bureau of Meteorology. The discussion which followed this statement showed that the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation might take action in two ways simultaneously : 1 . The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation might recommend the League of Nations to invite Governments to accord subsidies to the International Bureau of Meteorology. 2. The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation might avail itself of the facilities it possessed in the form of the International Institute for Intellectual Co-operation and place at the disposal of the International Bureau of Meteorology provisionally a few rooms in which the Bureau could instal its secretariat and archives. The cost of installation would thus be diminished and the Bureau might begin work almost at once. It would be understood that, as soon as the International Bureau of Meteorology became firmly established and had proved its value, it would have to obtain its own premises and could no longer remain a charge on the Institute, which must be in a position to offer similar hospitality to any other scientific organisation created in similar circumstances. The Director of the Institute does not see any objection to such an arrangement. There will be some difficulty, however, in the way of carrying out the first proposal. It would not only be desirable to establish the International Bureau of Meteorology, but the matter is, indeed, an urgent one. Several meteorological undertakings are about to be aban- doned owing to lack of means, and this would create gaps which it would be impossible to fill later. It therefore seems essential that the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation should submit its conclusions to the next (September) Assembly of the League. Unfortunately, [5] the Committee of Experts is not empowered to make any official proposal, as it is merely a Committee of Enquiry instructed by the International Meteorological Committee to submit a report to the Committee at its next meeting on September 20th. 1 Referred to hereinafter as the Committee of Experts.

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