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Concluding remarks: Although the International 

 Council was established primarily for the purpose 

 of aiding the fisheries industry, many researches 

 of significance to general oceanography have been 

 prosecuted under its auspices. The Jubilee 

 report for the meeting in 1927, twenty-five years 

 after the establishment of the Council, contains a 

 number of articles on what had been accomplished 

 in the different countries. Besides the work on 

 fishes, this report contains accounts of investiga- 

 tion.s in dynamical and chemical oceanography 

 and a variety of biological investigations such 

 as a paper on micro-biology by F. Liebert of the 

 Netherlands, plankton investigations by C. H. 

 Ostenfeld, and the conditions of life for plankton 

 in the coastal waters of northern Europe by H. H. 

 Gran. 



As a further indication of the kind of investiga- 

 tions cultivated under the auspices of the Inter- 

 national Council, the report of the proceedings 

 of a special meeting on "General marine physiol- 

 ogy, conditions of growth of phytoplankton," 

 held on March 27, 1931, at Copenhagen, may be 

 cited. Besides the preface by Dr. John Hjort, 

 this number of the Rapports et Proces ^'erbaux 

 des Reunions, volume 75, contains the following 

 articles : 



"Dissolved substances as food of aquatic organisms," 



by August Krogh, 

 "On the conditions for the production of plankton in the 



sea," by H. H. Gran, 

 "Biochemical and biological investigations of the varia- 

 tions in the productivity of the west Norwegian oyster 



pools," by T. Gaarder and R. Spiirck, 

 "Eine biologisch chemische Studie in Hafenwasser von 



Helsingfors," by Kurt Buch, 

 "Beziehungen zwischen Kalkgehalt des Meerwassers und 



Plankton," by H. Wattenberg, and 

 "On the rate of photosynthesis by diatoms," by H. W. 



Harvey. 



Two of the more recent volumes of the Rapports 

 et Proces-Verbau.x des Reunions will be men- 

 tioned. One is Volume 95, March 1936, the 

 contents of which are as follows: 



A review of some aspects of Zooplankton research, 

 by F. S. Russell, Plymouth. 



Further investigations upon the photosynthesis of 

 phytoplankton bj- constant illumination, by H. Hoglund 

 and S. Landberg, Born0. 



The continuous plankton recorder: a new method of 

 survey, by A. C. Hardy, Hull. 



Die Ergebnisse der internationalen hydrographischen 

 Beobachtungen im Kattegat im August 1931, by B. 

 Schulz, Hamburg. 



The second part of voume 101, July 1936, is 

 devoted to a series of papers entitled "The 

 measurement of submarine light and its relation 

 to biological phenomena." This mmiber contains 

 six articles, two by biologists and four by 

 physicists. 



International Committee on the Oceanography 

 of the Pacific ('37) 



History or origin:^ At the final general meeting 

 of the Second Pan-Pacfic Science Congress held 

 in Sydney, Australia, in September, 1923, an 

 International Committee was established to 

 collect data on the temperatures, chemical fea- 

 tures, and currents of the Pacific Ocean, the 

 committee to be composed of at least one repre- 

 sentative of each country represented at the 

 Third Pan-Pacific Congress and in which investi- 

 gations of the kind indicated were being actively 

 prosecuted. 



At the Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress, 

 it was decided to discharge the Committee on 

 the Physical and Chemical Oceanography of the 

 Pacific and to replace it by a Committee on the 

 Oceanograph}' of the Pacific which would be more 

 broadly representative of the science. Accord- 

 ingly the following four resolutions were adopted : 



RESOLVED: 



I. That the President or Administrative Council of the 

 Pacific Science Association appoint the Chairman of the 

 Committee on Oceanography of the Pacific and that 

 the appropriate scientific body in each country repre- 

 sented in the As.sociation appoint for the International 

 Committee a member who shall be the Chairman of a 

 National Committee for his country. 



II. That at least three subcommittees be formed on 

 (a) Physical and Chemical Oceanography; (b) Funda- 

 mental Marine Biology; (c) Fisheries Technology. 



III. That the closest possible relations be cultivated 

 between the different National Committees and between 

 the members of the special Subcommittees for the dif- 

 ferent countries; that they submit their respective 

 programs one to another, seek suggestions and advice 

 regarding the different features of their work, and 



2 Committee on the Chemical and Physical Oceanography 

 of the Pacific, report of the Chairman, T. Wayland Vaughan. 

 Third Pan.-Pac. Sci. Cong., Tokyo, 1926, Proc, vol. 1, 

 pp. 141-167, 1929. (Preprint, 1927.) 



Reports of the International Committee on the 

 Oceanography and the Coral Reefs of the Pacific, T. Way- 

 land Vaughan, Chairman. Fourth Pac. Sci. Cong., Java, 

 1929, Proc, vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 1-136, 1930. 



International Committee on the Oceanography of the 

 Pacific, Report of the Chairman, T. Wayland Vaughan. 

 Fifth Pac. Sci. Cong., Canada, 1933, Prof., App. 1, pp. 

 245-384, 1934. 



