18 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY 



The participating governments shall decide in what city the central bureau 

 should be established, and this city must be the place of residence of the secretary 

 general, and must be a city conveniently situated for hydrographic and biological 

 research; 



(f) It shall be the business of the participating governments to decide among 

 themselves the quota that each one shall pay. 



D 



It would be desirable for the investigations to commence on May 1, 1901. 



E 



The assembly declares that it is of the greatest importance for deep sea fishing 

 and for long range meteorological forecasts to have the islands of Faroe and 

 Iceland included as soon as possible in the European telegraph network. 



The relations between the quantity of halogen contained in water and the 

 density of the water must be carefully examined by an experimental revision of 

 the tables compiled by Knudsen (Ingolf, Exp. II, 37). The tables compiled by 

 Makaroff, Kriimmel and others for the relation between specific gravity, density 

 and salinity are also urgently in need of an experimental revision. 



It has been proposed that these investigations be carried out at the Institute 

 of Technology in Copenhagen under the direction of a committee composed of 

 Messieurs Sir John Murray, Knudsen, Pettersson, Nansen, Kriimmel, H. N. Dickson 

 and Makaroff. The funds necessary for carrying out this work shall be requested 

 from scientific associations granting funds for such purposes. 3 



G 



The assembly recommends that these resolutions be communicated to the 

 French and Belgian Governments by the participating nations. 



H 



In case the resolutions of the assembly are approved by the states, it may be 

 presumed that some time will pass before the organization of the central bureau 

 is accomplished. In the meantime, perhaps the Governments would like to have 

 an organization in connections with the assembly which could be useful for the 

 formation of the council and of the central bureau. 



The members of the 3rd committee, Akerman, Drechsel, von Grimm, Herwig, 

 Hoek, Sir John Murray, Nansen and Pettersson offer their services in this connec- 

 tion. 



Stockholm, June 23, 1899. 



Signed: A. R. Akerman, President. 



O. Pettersson, Secretary General. 



(Dr. Domas Krivickas, European Law Division, Law Library, Library of 

 Congress, February 8, 1962.) 



Mr. Morse. Would you summarize the report, Mr. Bauer? 



Mr. Bauer. The essential division of the long-range plan is to 

 study the hydrographic work of the seas, and the Europeans by the 

 term "hydrography" mean all that we mean in physical and chemical 

 oceanography, as well as geological oceanography. In this the neces- 

 sity of having standardization of instrumentation is spelled out, 

 something that we are just about perhaps to arrive at. 



In this, it describes the methods of examining the biota of the seas, 

 and as I understand it, we have as yet no long-range national planning 

 for the subject of marine biology. 



3 In regard to this resolution, the British Association voted an allocation of 100 pounds sterling for this 

 purpose and the Russian Government promised the same sum. Requests for funds for the same purpose 

 were made in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to scientific associations etc. 



Dr. M. Knudsen of Copenhagen, who was appointed chief of the work of revision by the assembly, is 

 now ready to undertake the experimental part of the work in the laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute 

 of Copenhaben.— O. P. 



