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Report of the Committee on Oceanography 

 of the national Academy of Sciences . 



Foreword. 



On April 37, 1937, it was voted by the 

 Academy "That the President of the Academy be 

 requested to appoint a Committee on Oceanography 

 from the Sections of the Academy concerned to con- 

 sider the share of the United States of America in 

 a world-wide program of Oceanographic Research and 

 report to the Academy." 



The President of the Academy, 

 Professor A, A, Michelson, accordingly appointed 

 Messrs. William Bowie, E. G. Conklin, B. M. Duggar, 

 John 0. Merriam, T. Wayland Vaughan and Frank R, 

 Lillie (Chairman) as members of the Committee, 



