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results have been obtained, it being found possible from temperature- 

 observations to predict the arrival at certain points of migratory food 

 fishes, such as herring, some time beforehand. 



4. That this Congress congratulates the Government on the beginning 

 made to equip the Hector Observatory with improved seismological equip- 

 ment, as urged at the last Congress, and that, owing to the importance of 

 seismology to New Zealand, the Congress desires to urge the Government 

 to add to the equipment of the Hector Observatory by providing another 

 Milne-Shaw seismograph, so that both horizontal components may be deter- 

 mined, and that a vertical-component seismograph also be provided. 



5. That a sub-committee consisting of Dr. Thomson, Mr. P. G. Morgan, 

 and Mr. Donovan (Dr. Thomson as convener) be set up and requested to 

 collect available information with respect to the New Zealand occurrence 

 of minerals containing suspected isotopes of certain elements, and that this 

 be handed to Professor Robertson for publication in some suitable journal. 



6. That this Congress urges upon the Government and people of New 

 Zealand the great importance of accepting the generous offer to New Zea- 

 land of astronomical equipment and staff made by the Yale University 

 Corporation, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. 



7. That this Congress urges upon the Government the importance of 

 taking steps to participate in the determination of the longitude of the 

 Hector Observatory by radio-telegraphy from the Greenwich and Paris 

 Observatories, as recommended by the Bureau des Longitudes, Paris. 



