The President submitted to the Meeting, with some diffidence, the preliminary set of notations covering the whole field of astronomy, which he had prepared, and which had been printed in the Draft Report. It was, he said, a compromise between different systems of notations. He pointed to some misprints in the Draft Report and invited discussion.

Prof. Stroobant expressed his pleasure that the President had retained a number of the notations which he had presented at the Rome Meeting. While rendering homage to the completeness of the new scheme, he said that it had been submitted at too short a notice to allow a thorough discussion. He therefore proposed, at all events, to postpone a final decision.

Prof. Eddington and Prof. Russell agreed to this view, but emphasized the necessity of the new scheme being printed. They suggested some slight changes in a few of the proposed notations.