The President referred to a proposal by Dr Royds, given in the Draft Report, and supported in a letter by Dr Nicholson; after a short deliberation, on which the President and several members (D’Azambuja, da Costa Lobo, Butler, Evershed, Rodés) expressed their views, it was unanimously decided that, in order not to break the existing records, the present scale 0-5 should be retained limiting the interpolation to a half unit.