COMMITTEE ON COORDINATION OF COSMIC‐RAY INVESTIGATIONS

Abstract

This special Committee (consisting of Dr, Walter S. Adams, Dr. Fred E. Wright, and the author) appointed in December, 1932, by Dr. J. C. Merriam, at that time President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to consider coordination of possible continued support by the Institution of research on cosmic rays, pursued its activities on a somewhat reduced scale during the year ended June 30, 1943. Although the greater part of the interested personnel was assigned to war‐reasearch problems, some progress was made.There is only a remote possibility that research on cosmic rays may find application to war‐research problems. It is essential, nevertheless, in view of past experience, that as far as possible continuity of permanent records obtained with cosmic‐ray meters be maintained for future theoretical and statistical investigation. Under the general supervision of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism the cosmic‐ray meters at Cheltenham Magnetic Observatory of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Huancayo Magnetic Observatory (Peru) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Amberley Branch of the Christchurch Observatory (New Zealand), National Astronomical Observatory at Tacubaya (Mexico), and Godhavn Observatory (Greenland) of the Danish Meteorological Institute, were kept in operation.