Dr Lundmark called attention to the deaths of two members of the Commission, Miss Adelaide Ames and Father J. G. Hagen, and of a past member and former chairman, Dr G. Bigourdan, and outlined their contributions to the subject.

The secretary read a letter from the chairman, Dr Hubble, suggesting that the meeting be devoted primarily to informal discussion of relevant problems.

Dr Lundmark, as an introduction, read the recommendations adopted by the Commission in 1928. This was followed by the reading of the first part of the acting chairman’s report on the advance and present state of knowledge of the anagalactic nebulae.