Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to The Under Secretary of State, India Office, Whitehall, S.W. The Observatories Committee of the Royal Society at their meeting this afternoon had under consideration the report of the Director of the Maharaja Takhtasingji Observatory, Poona, for the period 1 April to 31 December. With reference to paragraph five of the report, the Committee thinks it is not desirable that the long-continued series of eye observations of the twelve most widened lines in suns-pot spectra in the regions D to F should be interrupted for the present time. The Committee made no remarks on the other paragraphs. 29 July 1908