Board of Scientific Advice for India Annual Report for the year 1918-19

The study of the soils of orange gardens has been taken up in the Central Provinces and progress has been made with the survey of the tea d:stricts of North-East India by the officers of the Indian Tea Association. [...] The enormous: velocities observed in the expanding hydrogen (up to 2480 km/sec) can only be explained as the result of a collision or perhaps more plausibly by the of the enormous internal energy of atoms implying the actual destrution of matter in the interior of the star. [...] The reduction of the observations of the detailed. ) and the investigtion of the results in disturbed areas are being procee -:.v74-11 The magnetic elements at observatories..--/IYe tabu_ lation of the provisional values of declination. [...] Readings of the tide-pole at Basra]) have been continued under the orders of the Director of Inland Water Transport and from them the HarmonicAtilysis for the determination of the constants of the Port has been performed. [...] S. The title of this paper is lucestigations of hoslasy in Himalayan and Yeighbouriv Regions and it puts forward the proposition that the anomalies both the values of q and in the attractions of the plumb line which remain after the effects of isostatic compensation on the Hayford hypothesis have been allowed for may be due to imperfections in the application of the hypothesis rather than to de