covered by the trenemitted charts. Only a fractio~ portion of the orlgin&l manuscript chart whiuh ia usually drawn for tho antira Pacific was transmitted. It would se- that this pFoCOdUF’Ocaused a midmum aamunt of wo* for the weather centralae ~ by Cli@~ to archaic thinking in believing that the field meteorologistsmust have a large scale map, a wonderful opportunity to demomtrate the c~lete usefulness of facsimile transmissionswas completely lost. The entire Pacific surface analysis, ad if possible hemisphexk analyses should have been transmitted from these centrals. T~ upper air ch~s wen scientifically~ssible as a fore- casting aid. Here again large scale maps were transmittedwith many of the charts having only 2 or 3 iso-height lima showi~ only a fraction of any significantupper-air enalysis. Further no temperatun analysis or relativetopographywas biicatod and without this information tbse upper air charts were of casual interest but utterly worth1088 in forecaat~. Written ~o~tion on the tr~t ted charts indicating the reliability of tho analysia, ●utimated frental ad development of txmughs @ charts used in the analysis sconsiderationad etc., can @ intensities, the speed waves, or implications from other as preseure change charts, thermodynaqlc should be Indicated on the facshile transmittedmaps. ~en the facsimile concept is recognizedwhole heartedly~ meteorologists,only then will it be possible to demonstrate Its great usefulness. It is estimated that four aerographer’smates out of a SECTION XXI 73 i