Forty‐one observatories have collaborated in establishing the magnetic character of the year 1928. The lists for Kakioka have no longer been received and at Munich registration of the magnetic variations was interrupted at the beginning of the year on account of the disturbances caused by electric tramlines. Observations are lacking for San Juan for January and September, for Vassouras during the greater part of January and December and for several days in the other months. The Observatory of Buitenzorg was replaced in November by the new observatory at Kuiper, an island in the Bay of Batavia.