48 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
the proper parallel termini technici should be given in other languages, and the list 
should be completed by adding the new ones, which may not exist at all in other languages, 
simply because there are no such objects. Toavoid misunderstanding, it is to be desired 
that the original list of termini technici should be accompanied by some explanation 
of the kind used in the condensed dictionaries (Larausse, Webster, and others). The 
original list should be reproduced in several copies for distribution among the specialists 
of all countries where the above-mentioned languages are in use, and every specialist, or 
many of them, should give a parallel list of the names and of the termini technici used in 
fisheries in his own country. It is necessary, further, that all these papers should be 
under direction of one and the same hand in order to give them one system and similar 
editorial lines. In such a state the work may then be presented to the next congress, 
by which it should be, if found good, approved, such approbation by the congress being 
desired in order to fix the terminology, to unify it, and thus to facilitate the use of 
different books and papers in future. 
Such is a general plan for drawing up an international book of information, or 
dictionary of fisheries and fish culture. I should say in addition that the charge of 
writing the original list we should beg our German colleagues to take on themselves, for 
these reasons: First of all, the German terminology in fisheries and fish culture is more 
elaborated and detailed; besides which, in the German ‘‘ Handbuch der Fischzucht und 
Fischerei,’”” by Professors Benecke, Dallmer, and M. von dem Borne, we find already 
the primitiz of what should be included in the proposed dictionary. 
There is another question: What institution, or what persons, should be engaged 
to see that the work is completed at the proper time? It would be natural to give this 
in charge to the ‘‘Conseil permanent de la péche,” an executive organ of the Inter- 
national Fishery Congresses. But this institution, as is well known, gives no sign of 
existence. Or, it would be possible to give this task to the organizing committee of 
the next congress. But experience shows us that this committee can scarcely accom- 
plish such a task, because it as a rule is not itself organized until a short time before the 
opening of the congress and has too much work to do at that time. It remains to propose 
that this work be intrusted to another permanent institution having direct relations 
with the fisheries, it being better, of course, if such institution be of international char- 
acter. The only institution of this kind, so far as I know, is the ‘“‘Conseil international 
(and bureau of it) pour l’exploration des mers du Nord.” If the honorable and highly 
esteemed secretary of that institution and the members thereof assisting in this congress 
find my proposal practicable and will be kind enough to render their assistance in the 
matter, it will be certain that the work will be done. 
It will be understood that if my proposal is accepted this congress shall appoint per- 
sons from each country to write the respective parts of the whole work. As to the 
printing of the book, it would be more practicable for each country to have a separate 
edition, because the alphabets naturally should be the national ones. Then the ques- 
tion of expense for the printing, etc., would be each country’s: own business. 
I have, then, the honor to submit to the Fourth International Fishery Congress at 
Washington the following proposal for a resolution: 
1. That it be recognized as desirable and useful to draw up an international diction- 
ary on fisheries and fish culture in twelve languages, according to the plan outlined 
above. 
2. That the writing of the original text of this dictionary (in German) be intrusted 
eee eee eee te eee ees , and the writing of the parallel texts in other languages, or the 
fespousibilitystheretor, He elven: tO = ere eee 
3. That the relations with collaborators for the compiling of this information book 
be intrusted to the bureau of the “Conseil international pour l’exploration des mers du 
Nord,” which institution will have the right to fix the time for delivering the papers by 
collaborators in each country, and will provide for unity of form for the whole, bearing 
in mind, however, that the manuscript of the book, quite ready for printing, shall be 
presented to the next congress for approval. 
