COUNCIL - SEPTEMBER 1910 — 16 — 



a Committee to consider the seal-question in the light of the replies which had 

 been received from the governments interested (See further : Appendix F, p. 80, 

 and the Resolution of the Council, p. 26—28). 



Second Sitting: Tuesday September 27th at 10 a.m. 



The President W. E. Archer in the chair. 

 Present: the Members, Experts etc. (list p. 2). 



Head 1 of the Agenda (continued). The President opened the meeting by 

 announcing that replies had been received to the telegrams that had been forvsrarded 

 to His Majesty the King of Denmark and to the former President of the Council, 

 Dr. Herwig; the reply-telegrams were read. 



Under Head 9 of the Agenda (Dr. Heincke: — Verbal statement on the 

 present state of his General Report on the plaice question), 



Professor Dr. Heincke gave a verbal statement on the subject. 



The President thanked him for the interesting lecture and expressed the 

 desire that Prof. Heincke would remit the manuscript to the Bureau in order to 

 have the lecture printed and included in the Rapports & Procès-Verbaux, and the 

 Council reaffirmed the resolution passed in July 1908 (Procès-Verbaux Vol. XI, 

 p. 54) with the amendment that the words "not later than January 1st 1911" be 

 substituted for the words "not later than 1st February 1909". 



Head 3 (continued) (Nomination of the Members of the Finance 

 Committee for the year 1909—10). 



On the proposal of the General Secretary the following gentlemen were 

 elected as members of the Finance-Committe for the financial year 1909 — 10: 



President W. E. Archer, 

 Vice-President 0. Pettersson, 

 Dr. Hjort, 

 Dr. Knipowitsch, 

 Dr. Krümmel. 

 Under Head 4 (continued) (the estimates for the year 1910—11), the 

 Bureau recommended: 



"The Estimates already printed are submitted on the assumption that the 

 receipts shown under heading II, 2—9 are received. The following amendments 

 are proposed on the same assumption. 

 Heading III, 10. 

 For "seven" read "eight". 



