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the Canadian Government, 



The Pacific Science Association, at the Conqress at Tokio in 

 19S9, established two international committees (since mero;ed into 

 one) on the Oceanography of the Pacific, which has proved highly 

 effective in promoting and unifying Oceanographic projects in that 

 ocean. 



It purposes, carried on through national committees and sub- 

 committees are as follows: 



1. To assemble for each county inform^ation as to the oceano- 

 graphic programs and investigations, private and governmental, 

 then in progress, and to make the information available to 

 the countries interested. 



2. To aid in the standardization of oceanographic methods, so 

 that the results ootained by any one group will be useaole 

 by any other group. 



3. To aid in coordinating the researches of different countries 

 on the Pacific, so that the program of each will fit into 

 the program.s of all the others. 



4. To stimulate researches in subjects to which adequate 

 attention is not being paid, and to suge-est programs of 

 more extended scope. 



The committee has no funds, but is actively functioning as an 

 advisory council for Oceanographic research in the Pacific. 



Its more important accomplishments have been the establishment 

 of the publication "Records of Oceanographic 'A'ork in Japan" by the 

 National Research Council of Japan; work on ocean dynamics off the 

 Coast of Alaska in connection with the International Fisheries 

 Commission; stimulus for the extensive program of research that has 

 been formulated by the Russians, and the development of a general 

 program for the exploration of the major oceano.Qrraphic features of 

 the Pacific. 



E. LIBRARISS 



Fortunately for the oceanographer , American centers of learning 

 are well provided with the literature that he espc;Cially requires. 

 In part, this is of course due to the fact that publication of 

 oceanographic studies has largely been in the serials of learned 

 institutions, which the mor^ important scientific libraries in 

 America regularly rec -ive in exchange. The other most important 

 vehicles for such puolication hav-^ been the Hydrographic bulletins of 

 one sort of another issued by maritime nations. These again are to 

 be found in many of tho large libraries both public and private. 



Special efforts to accumulate oceanographical literature have 

 also been made at all the institutions, governmental and educational, 

 that participate at all actively in this^fidd, ooth in the United 

 States and in Canada. The r.,suit is that extensive collections on 

 this subject are, for example, to be found at the Laboratories of the 

 Biological Board of Canada; in the libraries of Harvard University, 



