COUNCIL — APRIL 1912 — 16 — 



Second Sitting: Saturday April 27th at 9.30 a.m. 



The President W. E. Archer in the chair. 

 Present : the Members, Experts etc. (list p. 3). 



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

 stated that replies had been received to some of the telegrams forwarded on the 

 first day of meeting, namely from: — H. R. H. the Grown Prince, Prof. Homén, 

 Prof. Nansen and Prof. Krümmel. These telegrams were read. 



Head 2 of the Agenda (Dr. Heincke: — Statement on his Report 

 on the Plaice question). The resolution adopted in accordance with the pro- 

 posals made at the First Sitting will be found on p. 32. 



Under Head 3 of the Agenda [Final approval of the accounts for the 

 financial years 1909—10 and 1910 — 11. Nomination of the Members 

 of the Finance Committee for the year 1911 — 12. (The Members of the 

 Finance Committee for 1910 — 11 were elected by correspondence. 

 See p. 26.)] the General Secretary reported that the Accounts for the financial years 

 1909—10 and 1910 — 11 had been investigated and found in order by the Finance 

 Committees and were now submitted for final approval of the Council. A summary, 

 which was published in the Rapports et Procès-Verbaux, Vol. XIII, pages 12 — 13, 

 showed that the balance at the end of the year 1909—10 was Kr. 23592.32. 



The General Secretary further stated that as regards the financial year 

 1910—11 a statement of accounts had already been distributed amongst the mem- 

 bers of the Council and that a comparison of the estimated expenditure with the 

 actual expenditure (see below) showed that the items under the different heads 

 corresponded very closely. The chief exception was that for printing where the 

 surplus 9000 Kr. was mainly due to Dr. Heincke's General Report not being printed 

 in this year. The balance carried forward from 1910/11 to 1911/12 was Kr. 34659.42. 



Statement of Accounts for the financial year 1910 — 11. 



Receiots ■ Estimated Actual 



" Receipts Receipts 



I. i. Balance on 22 nd July 1910 Kr. 23592.32 23592.32 



II. 2-8. Annual contributions of the governments concerned - 94725.00 94578.88 



III. 10. Sale of publications - 200.00 438.53 



IV. u. Interest - 1200.00 1020.74 



V.12. Sale of „Normal Water" - o.oo 569.99 



Total. . . Kr. 119717.32 120200.46 



