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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



is the amount derived from the hire of work 

 tables by visiting foreigners. 

 Provision for publication of results: Travaux de la 

 Station Zoologique de Villefranche sur Mer, in 

 which are assembled the memoirs and the notes 

 published in the different scientific publications 

 based upon researches conducted by scientific 

 investigators at the station. 



Station Zoologique de Wimereux 

 (Pas de Calais) ('37) 

 History or origin: Founded in 1874 by Alfred Giard. 

 Location: On the sea-shore, 2 km. north of the village 



of Wimereux (station Bains de Mer), 7 km. north 



of Boulogne-sur Mer, 260 km. from Paris. 

 Organization to which attached: Faculty of Science, 



University of Paris. 

 Purposes: Research and instruction in zoology and 



botany. 



(Scope of activities: Study of marine and littoral flora 

 and fauna; all questions of biological and related 

 subjects. 



Equipment: 1 laboratory (12 places), annex for 

 physiology; aquarium (sea water circulation); 

 museum; library; 1 gasoline boat; 1 row boat; 11 

 sleeping rooms for workers. 



Staff: Director, Prof. M. Caullery; Assistant, L. 

 Callien; 1 keeper; 1 mariner during the season. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: Lodging and 

 table for workers. About 15 can be accommo- 

 dated. 



Income: Regular resources, about 40,000 francs. 



Provision for publication of results: Travaux de la 

 Station Zoologique de Wimereux, quarto, 11 

 volumes published, (the twelfth in course of 

 publication). 



GERMANY TO MONACO, INCLUSIVE 



Germany 



Deutsche wissenschaftliche Komissioii fiir 

 Meeresforschung ('37) 



History or origin: The Commission was established 

 in 1901 under the name the Deutsche Komission 

 fiir die Internationale Komission fiir Erforschung 

 der Nordeuropiiischen Meere. 



Location: Office of administrative head, Berlin W. 9, 

 Pot.sdamerstrasse 10-11. 



Organization to which attached: Reichs-und Preus- 

 sisches Ministerium fiir Ernahrung und Land- 

 wirtschaft, (at Berlin W. 8, Wilhelmstr. 72). 



Purposes: The principal purpose is the scientific 

 investigation of fisheries problems and those 

 physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the 

 sea which influence fisheries. 



Scope of activities: 1. To understand so fully the 

 interrelations of life processes in the sea that 

 important questions of sea fisheries can be com- 

 pletely answered at any time. The work of the 

 D. W. K. deals with (a) concrete specific problems 

 and (b) the fundamental biological problems of 

 fishes. 



2. To obtain knowledge of the general relations 

 of the sea, its physical conditions, its chemical 

 compo.sition, and its currents, especially those 

 which may transport fish eggs and larvae, the 

 exchange of water between the different seas and 

 between the different parts of the same sea. The 

 work of the Komission therefore is based on 



results obtained through hydrographic and 

 oceanographic investigations. 



3. The more restricted investigations of fisher- 

 ies-biology include (a) specific parts of the sea or 

 specific fishes, (b) special important fundamental 

 problems. To the latter class belong the in- 

 vestigations of Brandt on the nitrogen relations 

 in the sea and of von Buddenbrock on the action 

 of different .salt concentrations on life in the sea. 

 In its international cooperative work two prob- 

 lems, the investigation of the races of fishes and 

 the fluctuations in abundance, stand foremost. 

 The work in fisheries-biology in its narrower sense 

 is divided into that for the North Sea and that 

 for the Baltic. 



4. Another .section of the work deals with 

 fisheries statistics. 



5. The D. W. K., from the beginning of the 

 International Council for the Exploration of the 

 Sea, till 1915, and then again since 1926, has been 

 a member of this Council, its representatives on 

 it being: Staatssekretiir i. R. Dr. Heinrici and 

 Professor Dr. Hagmeier. 



Equipment: The Deutsche wissenschaftliche Komis- 

 sion utilizes in its researches other institutions 

 which have extensive equipment. They are the 

 Biological Station on Helgoland, the Zoological 

 Institute at Hamburg, the Deutscher Seefischerei- 

 Verein at Berlin, and the Deutsche Seewarte at 

 Hamburg, and has relations with the Institut fiir 

 Meereskunde in Berlin. The Deutsche wissen- 



