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The OoffiiTiittee has consulted persons engaged in various phacee 

 of ec.no graphic research from all parts of America, and secured 

 the services of one distinguished European explorer and ocean- 

 ographer, H. U. Sverdrup, for consultation during a period of a 

 month in Amorica; it has engaged as its Secretary the Curator of 

 Oceanography at Harvard University, Dr. Henry 3. Bigelow, who 

 devoted all of his time for several months to investigations on the 

 status of oceanography throughout the world, and to the preparation 

 of the accor.panying report. "One of the members of the Committee, 

 T. Wayland Vaughan, has collected data for the Committee in the 

 Dutch East Indies, Siam and Indo-China, and has also placed at 

 the service of the Committee his extensive knowledge of the ocean- 

 ography of the Pacific. The other members of the Committee have 

 contributed their experience and knowledge. The reports of the 

 various oceanographic stations and organizations of the world 

 are available in printed form, and have been freely consulted; 

 moreover, each of the m-ore important statio^^s and organizations 

 is known by personal contacts to at least one member of the 

 Committee or to its Secretary. 



The Committee, therefore, feels that no good purpose would 

 be served by a more prolonged formal examination of existing con- 

 ditions. It therefore begs to submit to the Academy the accompany - 

 ing report, together with the recomiaendations based upon it, con- 

 tained in Cliapter VII. 



Many persons have assisted in the preparation of this report, 

 either in consultation, or by revision of parts of the manuscript. 

 The directors of the principal Sea Side Laboratories in Europe as 

 well as in America, have freely contributed information as to the 

 organization of their institutions, as have the administrative 

 officers of all the governmental establishments mentioned in the 

 report. To all of the collaborators we offer our hearty thanks. 



We wish in particular to express our gratitude for special 

 assistance in the preparation of the several chapters of the 

 report; to Messrs. L. B. Becking, C. F. Brooks, L. J. Collet, 

 li. J. Crozier, R. A. Daly, Haldane Gee, L. J. Henderson, A, G. 

 Huntsman, Alfred Redfield, H, U, Sverdrup, W. H, Twenhofel and 

 R. dec, \Tard, 



Frank R. Lillie, 

 Chairman. 



