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First Report of the Council of the Marine Biological 

 Association of the United Kingdom on work 

 carried out in connection with the International 

 Fishery Investigations.* 



To Sir Edward W. Hamilton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. 



Chair iiian of the North Sea Fisheries Investigation Committee. 



Sir, 



I am instructed by the Council of the Marine Biological 

 Association to submit for the information of the North Sea Fisheries 

 Investigation Committee the first lieport on work done in connection 

 with the International Investigation of North Sea Fisheries, dealing 

 chiefly with researches carried out during the years 1902 and 1903, 

 together with the detailed reports upon that work which have been 

 drawn up under the Council's direction by those members of the 

 scientific staff to whom the different sections of the investigations have 

 been entrusted. 



The Council desire to report as follows : — 



I.— General. 



At the request of His Majesty's Government, the Council of the 

 Marine Biological Association undertook to conduct the scientific part 

 of the scheme of fishery investigation adopted by the International 

 Conference held at Christiauia in 1901 in the southern portion of the 

 area assigned to Great Britain, subject to such modifications as might 

 be introduced by the International Council subsequently established, 

 and in accordance with the general regulations of that Council. 



The following is a list of members who have served on the Council 

 since the commencement of the investigations in 1902: — 



President — Professor E. Kay Lankester, LL.D., F.R.S. 



* Reiiiiiited from Internntio7ial Fishery Invcsliijations. First lirport on Fishery atid 

 Hydrographiad Investigations in the Xorth Sea and Adjacent Waters (Southern Area). 

 Conducted for His Majesty's Government by the Marine Biological Association of the United 

 Kingdom, 1902-1903. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His 

 Majesty. London : Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Oflice, 1905. Blue Book Cd. 2670. 

 Price 8s. 9rf. 



