The chairman of this committee desires at this time to present the 

 following recommendations for consideration by the Seventh Pacific 

 Science Congress : — 



It is recommended that — 



1. The several countries adhering to the Pacific Science 

 Association, in which there are extensive facilities for oceanographic 

 research, be requested to form a National Committee on the 

 Oceanography of the Pacific, providing that such a committee 

 does not already exist. 



2. Each National Committee on the Oceanography of the 

 Pacific shall name one of its members to serve also as a member of 

 the International Committee on the Oceanography^ of the Pacific 

 of the Pacific Science Association. 



3. The several countries adhering to the Pacific Science Associa- 

 tion in which a national committee on oceanography does not 

 exist be requested to appoint a scientist for service on the 

 International Committee on the Oceanography of the Pacific. 



4. The Pacific Science Association shall name the chairman of 

 the International Committee on the Oceanography of the Pacific. 



5. The International Committee on the Oceanography of the 

 Pacific shall be empowered to function during the interim between 

 congresses in order to facilitate oceanographic investigations in 

 all countries bordering on the Pacific, to aid in the exchange of 

 oceanographic information, and to assist students and investigators 

 desirous of pursuing their studies and investigations be^'ond their 

 national borders. 



6. The Pacific Science Association request that the Inter- 

 national Committee on the Oceanography of the Pacific be 

 represented on the International Committee of Oceanography set 

 up by the Combined Unions of Biological Sciences and of Geodesy 

 and Geophysics. 



7. The Pacific Science Association request that the Inter- 

 national Committee on the Oceanography of the Pacific be repre- 

 sented on any commissions dealing with oceanography within the 

 United Nations Organization. 



OCEANOGRAPHIC STUDIES MADE BY ARGENTINA 



By Pedro S. Casal, Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Geograficos 



These studies are of great importance to us because the continental 

 shelf which borders our coast is very extensive ; there is a warm current 

 which comes from the north and meets other cold ones (from the 

 " Malvinas " and the Antarctic) and, besides, the tides of the Pacific 

 and of the Atlantic mutually influence each other in the southern part, 

 producing physical and biological phenomena which it is necessary to 

 determine with precision. 



The large Antarctic icebergs sometimes invade the continental shelf 

 for reasons which are as yet unknown. At first we oriented our studies 

 to the hydrographic mapping of the coast. This has required many 

 years of work because the coast is approximately 5,000 kilometres long 

 and is open to the Atlantic. This necessitates an earnest study of the 

 tides whose amplitude is of great importance to the life in the ports. ■ 

 Although at the mouth of the Plata River the, amplitude of the hightide 

 is only 1 metre, more or less, in some ports on the coast the amplitude. 



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