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and Messrs. Kriimmel and Mill were requested to incorporate the 

 amendments in a revised programme to be submitted to the Conference 

 for approval. 



The meeting adjourned at 1.30 p.m. 



2.30 p.m. 



After the Chairman had communicated some telegraphic corre- 

 spondence with the Belgian delegates, the Conference took up the 

 consideration of the subjects of plankton and the bottom fauna. 



A committee consisting of Messrs, Brandt, Cleve, Garstang, Heincke, 

 Hoek, Ivnipowitsch, and Gran was appointed to draw up a set of pro- 

 posals on these subjects in connection with the biological programme. 



A committee consisting of Messrs. Kriimmel, Mill, and Pettersson 

 was appointed to draw up resolutions — (1) as to the desirability of work- 

 ing up the hydrographic material according to the methods of Bjerknes 

 and Sandstrom (see Kesolution J ) ; and (2) as to the desirability of 

 arranging for co-operation with the proposed researches on the tempera- 

 ture of lakes announced by Prof. Porel, of Zurich (see Eesolution K). 

 Dr. Herwig assumed that these matters would involve no extra charge 

 on the international budget. As regards the first, the Chairman 

 announced that Sweden was prepared to pay the cost of preliminary 

 researches on the matter; and he supposed that, if these inquiries 

 yielded very important results, the other States, as well as Sweden, 

 would desire to continue the work. 



Thursday, May 9 th. 

 11 a.m. Prof. Hoek (Holland) in the chair. 



The Chairman submitted the printed proposals prepared by the 

 various committees ; viz. : — 



(1) Additions to the hydrographical programme; 



(2) The programme of biological investigations ; and 



(3) The supplement to the latter in regard to plankton and the fauna 



and tlora of the sea-bed. 



The hydrographical programme was accepted without change. 



The biological programme was then adopted, paragraph by paragraph, 

 with slight modifications and additions proposed by Messrs. Heincke, 

 Brandt, and D'Arcy Thompson. 



Prof. Henking (Germany) proposed that statistical data should be 

 accumulated, with the assistance of fishermen, according to the method 

 followed at Geestemiinde. 



A committee consisting of Messrs. Garstang, Heincke, Hjort, Hoek, 

 Kriimmel, Mill, and Gran was authorised to fix the final form of the 



