Expenditure. The annual expenditure on the Observatory for the past ten years is as follows:-
Year. Total Expenditure. Increase. Decrease. 1913 $24,255.49 $1,660.41 1914 $25,398.31 $1,142.82 1915 $23,233.12 $2,165.19 1916 $21,977.78 $1,255.34 1917 $26,890.50 $4,912.72 1918 $20,028.24 $6,862.26 1919 $23,450.57 $3,422.33 1920 $25,965.66 $2,515.09 1921 $32,700.51 $6,734.85 1922 $38,350.10 $5,649.59Acknowledgements. Acknowledgements are here made to the Directors of Weather Services in the Far East, and the Chinese Maritime Customs authorities, for daily observations and extra observations during typhoon weather, to the Telegraph Companies for transmitting the observations free of charge, to the Commanders of vessels who have furnished meteorological observations by post and by radio telegraphy, to the Directors of the various Observatories and Institutions, and private persons, who have presented their publications to the Library, and to the Observatory staff for the efficient manner in which they have carried out their respective duties.
1923, February 9.
T. F. CLAXTON, Director.