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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



tion and related problems, meteorology, regLs- 



tration of seismic activities. 

 Equipment: A principal building on the open sea 

 with laboratories, collecting rooms, sorting rooms, 

 administrative rooms, and public aquarium (seven 

 large and fifty small tanks), 6 stories, 960 sq.m. 

 Laboratory on the harbor 3 stories, 382 sq.m. 

 Ornithological station 3 stories, 336 sq.m. Trap- 

 ping grounds of the ornithological station 2600 

 sq.m. The Museum, the North Sea Museum, 

 and Bird Migration Museum, 2 stories, 180 sq.m. 

 Library, more than 13,000 bound volumes and 

 more than 13,000 unbound volumes. Research 

 ship Makrele, 34 m. long, 420 p.s. Diesel motor, 

 speed 10 knots per hour (for longer voyages, the 

 institution has at its service the Governmental 

 research ship Poseidon, 46 m. long). 2 motor 

 boats. Several small row and sail boats. Several 

 houses. Shed for fishing gear, boats, gasoline 

 storage, etc. Seismological room, 1st order, 

 142 sq.m. 5 servants houses. Studentenheim 

 "Wilh. Mielck Haus," 27 beds. Work place 

 for the Deutsche Wiss. Komm. fiir Meeresforsch- 

 ung. Branch Laboratory in List, on the Island 

 of Sylt, in the service of the Listitute's investiga- 

 tion of tide lands and oysters. Im Wesermiinde: 

 work place Fischereiforschung. 



The Biological Institute on Helgoland also 

 cooperates with the Hansische Universitat Ham- 

 burg (Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fak- 

 ultat), Institut fiir Seefischerei in Wesermiinde, 

 Forschungsstellen Westkiiste in Biisum and 

 Husum, Geologische Forschungsanstalt Sencken- 

 berg, Wilhelmshaven. 

 Staff: Director: Professor Dr. A. Hagmeier. The 

 Director is the head of the administration (Kassa 

 and Biiro, 1 inspector, 1 secretary, and three 

 assistants), the research work, the conduct of the 

 station, the branch laboratory at List, and the 

 public arrangements of the aquarium and mu- 

 seum. He was also the editor of the Wissen- 

 schaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, Abteilung Hel- 

 goland (now discontinued). 



The heads of the sections in the Institute, and 

 their assistants are as follows: 



Ecology: Director Prof. A. Hagmeier. Scien- 

 tific assistants: Dr. H. Schack, Dr. B. Werner, 

 Dr. Ahinke (Wilhelmshaven). 



Plankton: Kustos Prof. A. Wulff. Sclent. 

 Assistant: Dr. C. Kiinne, D.W.K. 



Zoology; Kustos Dr. H. Hertling. Oberassistent 



Dr. Meunier. Research Assistant: Dr. L. 

 Jacobi. 

 Botany: (Kustos Prof. E. Schreiber, on leave), 



Substitute: Dr. P. Kornmann. 

 Applied Marine Research: Sekretar der D.W.K. 

 Dr. A. Biickmann. Scientific Assistants: 

 D.W.K. Dr. Lundbeck (Wesermiinde). Dr. 

 Schmidt, Dr. Risch (Wesermiinde). 

 Ornithological Station: Kustos Prof. R. Drost. 



Scientific Assistant, Dr. Schildmacher. 



Technical staff: 16 assistants for scientific work 



and aquarium. 9 technical staff and ap)- 



pointees for scientific fishery experiments; 



10 officers and as.sistants for the office and 



library; 2 machinists; 6 members of the 



house personnel. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: For foreign 



investigators there are 50 work places besides 30 



places available for those who are taking courses. 



Provision for publication of results: (a) Wissenschaft- 



liche Meeresuntersuchungen, N.F., Abteilung 



Helgoland. Or. 4°. (zitiert: Wiss. Meeresunters. 



Abt. Helgoland, BD. XIX, Nr. 1.) Discontinued. 



Fortisetzung: Helgolander Wissenschaftliche 



Meeresuntersuchungen. 



(b) Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Vogel- 



zugsforschung, Gr. 4°. 



(c) Der Vogelzug. (In Gemeinschaft mit 



der Vogelwarte Rossitten der Kaiser- 

 Wilhelm-Gesellschaft und der Deutschen 

 Ornithologischen Gesellschaft herausge- 

 gebene Zeitschrift.) 



(d) Many scientific contributions of the Insti- 



tute appear in other Zeitschriften espe- 

 cially in the Berichte der Deutschen 

 wissenschaftlichen Komission fiir Meeres- 

 forschung (Ber. d. D.W.K.) and in the 

 publications of the International Council 

 for the Exploration of the Sea. 



Meereschemisches Laboratorium der 

 Universitat Kiel ('37) 



Location: University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany. 



Organization to which attached: University of Kiel. 



Purposes and scope of activities: Study of the chem- 

 istry of sea water. 



Equipment: One physical and one chemical labora- 

 tory. 



Staff: Chief, Dr. H. Wattenberg; Assistant, Fraulein 

 Dr. H. Meyer. 



