Professor Louis Fage submitted the following resolution to the 

 Commission : — - 



" That this Commission request UNESCO to approach the 

 Food and Agriculture Organization and get an international 

 conference summoned to discuss the necessity of establishing a 

 marine biological and oceanographic station in each of the areas 

 into which FAO proposes to subdivide the oceans, if no such 

 laboratory already exists ; and that representatives of those 

 organizations that are interested in this branch of research, 

 such as the Australian Council of Industrial and Scientific 

 Research, the International Council for the Exploration of the 

 Sea, &c., as well as representatives of the various laboratories 

 in the different areas, should be invited to attend." 



This resolution was carried unanimously. 



Consideration of a proposal submitted by Professor Romanovsky 

 for the establishment of a " Review of Oceanography " : — 



Professor Louis Fage pointed out that a very similar proposal was 

 being brought before the present meeting of the Association d'Oceano- 

 graphie Physique by Dr. P. Green. By this proposal it was hoped that 

 the Association d' Oceanographic Physique would resolve to establish 

 an inclusive, periodical bibliography on physical oceanography and its 

 border fields, preferably in co-ordination and combination with a biblio- 

 graphy on marine biology. Such a publication would cover most of the 

 ground suggested by Professor Romanovsky, the main exception being 

 the absence of special articles. Dr. F. S. Russell (\^isitor) suggested 

 that there were already in existence a number of journals in which such 

 special articles could be published, and Dr. Blegvad (Visitor) pointed 

 out that the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in 

 their publications gave a bibliography of a number of papers on marine 

 biology and oceanography. Dr. Sverdrup considered that it would be 

 of great value to investigate the problem of how world-wide literature 

 on this branch of science could be got together, and he suggested the 

 appointment of a committee to go into the matter. Professor Proudman 

 suggested that the Commission should nominate several biologists and 

 should ask the Council of the Association d'Oceanographie Physique 

 to include these biologists in the committee that is to be appointed by 

 the association to consider the proposal of Dr. Green. 



This proposal was adopted, and the following Biologists were 

 nominated by the Commission : — 



Professor Louis Fage, 



Lieut. -Commander Lumby, and 



Dr. Ruud. 



It was resolved that the Commission could not support Professor 

 Romanovsky 's proposal. 



OCEANOGRAPHIC ACTIVITIES OF THE U.S. COAST AND 

 GEODETIC SURVEY 1939-1949 



By Rear Admiral L. O. Colbert, Director, Washington, D.C. 



The oceanographic activities of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in the 

 Pacific area, between the years 1939 and 1949, embraced three fields— 

 hydrographic surveying, tide and current work, and nautical charting. 



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