The questionnaire shown below was circulated to all members of the Institute. In the following analysis of the replies, forms completed by members with no experience or direct concern with surface navigation have been disregarded. The substance of replies received from members in the Royal Navy has been given separately. It has not been possible to detect any marked unanimity in the answers given by Examiners, Navigation School instructors, Marine Superintendents,&c., and these have been included under the heading of Merchant Navy.

The detailed comment given is taken from the discussion at the Meeting and from letters and memoranda sent in to the Institute. In some cases it refers (e.g. layout, &c.) to matter not reproduced in the Journal. For convenience of reading reference numbers have been given to the authors of comment.