THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY SET 

 UP BY THE COMBINED UNIONS OF BIOLOGICAL 

 SCIENCES AND OF GEODESY AND 

 GEOPHYSICS 



By Lieut. -Colonel R. B. Seymour Sewell, Secretary, the Zoological 

 Laboratory, Cambridge, England 



Excerpts Taken From the Minutes of the Meeting Held in the 

 Rooms of the Royal Society of London, Burlington 

 House, London, on 22nd and 23rd May, 1947 

 Members — 



Appointed by the Unions — 



Dr. C. von Bonde, Department of Commerce and Industry, 



Central Street 216, Pretoria, South Africa. 

 Dr. Charles Fish, Professor of Zoology, Rhode Island State 



College, Kingston, R.I., U.S.A. 

 Professor B. Helland Hansen, Det. Geophysisk Institut, Bergen, 



Norway. 

 Dr. Harald U. Sverdrup, Director, Scripps Institute of Oceano- 

 graphy, La Jolla, U.S.A. 

 Professor Hans Pettersson, Oceanografiske Institutet Stejberg- 



storget S., Goteborg, Sweden. 

 Professor J. Proudman, F.R.S., The University, Liverpool, 



England. 

 Professor Dr. H. Boschma (Convener), Rijksmuseum van 



Natuurlijke Historic, Leiden, Holland. 



Co-opted Members — 



Lieut. -Colonel R. B. Seymour Sewell, CLE., F.R.S., The Zoological 

 Laboratory, Cambridge, England. 



Professor Louis Fage, Institut Oceanographique, 193, Rue Saint- 

 Jacques, Paris, Ve. 



Professor W. J. Dakin, Department of Zoology, University of Sydney, 

 Sydney, Australia. 



Dr. E. C. Bullard, F.R.S., Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, 

 Cambridge. 



Members Present — 



Dr. H. Boschma (Convener). 



Professor Hans Pettersson, of Sweden. 



Professor Proudman, of Liverpool. 



Dr. R. B. Seymour Sewell, of Cambridge. 



The meeting was also attended by Professor F. J. M. Stratton, F.R.S., 

 General Secretary of the Conseil International des Unions Scientifiques. 



Dr. H. Boschma was elected as Chairman of the Committee and 

 Dr. R. B. Seymour Sewell was appointed Secretary. 



It was decided to consider the co-optation of additional members to 

 the Committee — 



Dr. Ph. H. Kuenen, of Holland. 



Dr. Bullard, F.R.S., of Cambridge. 



Dr. Louis Fage, of the Musee d'Historie Naturelle, Paris. 



It was proposed that Dr. Dakin, of Sydney, Australia, should be 

 co-opted. This was agreed to. 



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