OCEANOGRAPHY 



Organizing Chairman: Dr. D. V. Villadolid, Director, Bureau of 



Fisheries, Manila. 

 Secretary: Mr. Teodoro G. Megia^ Bureau of Fisheries, Manila.* 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED IN THE EIGHTH PACIFIC SCIENCE 

 CONGRESS CONCERNING OCEANOGRAPHY 



STANDING COMMITTEES 



5. That the Standing Committees on Meteorology of the Pacific, 

 Oceanography of the Pacific, Pacific Entomology, Pacific Conservation, 

 Museums in Pacific Research, Soil and Land Classification in the Pacific 

 Area, Forest Resources of the Pacific Area, Crop Improvement in the 

 Pacific Area, Animal Improvement in the Pacific Area, Anthropology 

 and Social Sciences in the Pacific be continued. 



JOINT DIVISIONAL RESOLUTIONS 



I. Geology, Oceanography and Meteorology 



The Congress notes the efforts now being made to provide for the 

 establishment of an international geophysical institute in the Hawaiian 

 Islands as a center for the investigation of problems related to the chem- 

 istry, physics and mathematics of the earth, sea and atmosphere and their 

 roles in Pacific environmental relationships. 



The Congress believes that an Institute in the sense envisaged 

 would gieatly improve the opportunities for investigation of important 

 geophysical problems. 



DIVISIONAL RESOLUTIONS 



Oceanography 



1. The Congress notes with interest that the oceanographers attend- 

 ing the Eighth Pacific Science Congress propose to establish an Oceano- 

 graphic Institute of the Pacific. 



* Present address: Bureau of Agricultural Extension, DANE, Manila. 



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