lAPSO Dr. A. E. Maxwell (Secretary) 



Associate Director 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts 



IOC SECRETARIAT 



Dr. K. N. Fedorov (Secretary of IOC) 



Director, Office of Oceanography 



UNESCO 



Place de Fontenoy 



Paris 7j> France 



Dr. G. Giermann (Asst. Secretary of IOC) 



Deputy Director, Office of Oceanography 



UNESCO 



Place de Fontenoy 



Paris 7i France 



/ Miss D. M. Russell (IOC Secretariat) 



Office of Oceanography 

 UNESCO 



Place de Fontenoy 

 Paris 7j France 



IV. Work of the Meeting 



During the Ninth Meeting of the Bureau and Consultative 

 Council all agenda items except Item 7 were considered, and 

 19 Recommendations were adopted. Each of the Recommendations 

 adopted during the Ninth Meeting is included under the appro- 

 priate agenda item, and the items which follow are numbered 

 in accordance with the agenda as adopted. 



Dr. Roger Revelle, Director of the Center of Population 

 Studies, Harvard University, delivered the welcoming address 

 at the opening of the Ninth Meeting of the Bureau and 

 Consultative Council. In a broad-ranging talk. Dr. Revelle 

 sketched the histories of the Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission 

 and commented on man's growing uses of the seas and on the 

 corresponding need for increased intergovernmental cooperation 

 in marine matters. He suggested that the IOC has made a good 

 start and that its future role can be whatever its member 

 states desire. However, he said that if the IOC is to be 

 effective in the years to come, it will have to have its own 



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