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therefore now wished to ask the Council, whether it would not be opportune lo 

 approach Canada regarding co-operation. This was agreed to by the Council, and 

 after some consideration it was left to the Bureau and the Danish Foreign Office 

 to take the necessary steps in this respect, and also to decide whether Canada's 

 reply should be obtained before asking the consent of the Governments already 

 participating, or whether the Governments should be asked before approaching 

 Canada. 



c. As to the Nomination of the Members of the Bureau, the Assistants and 

 the Editorial Committee for the year 1912—13 (from September 1912) Vice-President, 

 Professor 0. Pettersson suggested that this should be deferred to a later sitting of 

 the Council. He stated, however, that the Bureau had considered the question of 

 Assistants and would recommend the Council to appoint two instead of Dr .Kyle, 

 one for Biology and one for Plankton, i. e. they would recommend that Dr. Osten- 

 feld should take charge of the Plankton Department on about one third of the 

 usual salary and with short office hours; two applications had been received for 

 the vacant post as Biological Assistant, from Dr. Reichard of Germany and Mr. 

 Buchanan Wollaston of England, and Professor Pettersson would now in the 

 name of the Bureau suggest that the academical method of proceeding should be 

 employed in the nomination, i. e. a committee of scientists should be instituted to 

 consider the two applications and report to the Council. The Council consented 

 to this method of procedure, and Professor von Grimm, Dr. Trybom and Dr. Redeice 

 were nominated as members of the committee. 



Heads 5 and 6 postponed (see p. 44). 



Under Head 7 of the Agenda (Verbal Report on the plaice question) 

 Professor Pettersson stated that this meeting was of quite special interest and im- 

 portance, as after many years' work and investigations on the plaice question 

 Geheimrat Heincke had now been able to reach the conclusions contained in the Resume 

 distributed two weeks ago. He would suggest that Geheimrat Heincke, if prepared, 

 should now give his verbal report on this question. 



Geheimrat Heincke agreed and gave the lecture contained on pp. 42. 



After this Professor Pettersson expressed the thanks of the Council to Ge- 

 heimrat Heincke for the great work laid down in the Resume and the part of the 

 General Report already published, and asked whether any one present wished to 

 make any questions or remarks with regard to the report of Geheimrat Heincke. 



Dr. Hjort also wished to thank Geheimrat Heincke and to congratulate the 

 Council upon this great work on the plaice question, and continued by saying: — 



