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now for the first time the Council are considering it on the base ot the internati- 

 onal investigations regulations can be proposed for the protection of one of our 

 most important foodfishes, the plaice. Great responsibility rests upon the President 

 when such a difficult task is to be dealt with. And when I yet look forward 

 with trust and confidence to the future, it is chiefly because ray experience as 

 your collaborator during five years has shown me how much can be accomphshed 

 by working together in a spirit of good comradeship". — Applause. 



Head 4 c (continued). Commander Deechsel: —"As regards the nomina- 

 tion of a new Member of the Bureau, the Bureau thought it desirable that there 

 should be a British Delegate elected on the Bureau and that, as there was a 

 change in the British I'epresentation on this occasion, they had thought it well to 

 consult the two British Delegates as to which of them it would be most conven- 

 ient to elect. The British Delegates were agreed that it would be most convenient 

 to elect Mr. Maurice". 



The Council agreed that Mr. Maurice should be nominated, and according 

 to the suggestion of Dr. Trybom, the other three Members of the Bureau were 

 reelected, whereafter the composition of the Bureau was as follows: — 

 K. Kais. Geheimer Legationsrat F. Rose, President, 

 H. Excellency 0. von Grimm ] 

 Mr. H. G. Maurice l Vice-Presidents. 



Prof. 0.[Pettersson ) 

 Commander C. F. Drechsel, General Secretary. 

 As Assistants of the Bureau the following were elected : — 

 As Hydrographical Assistant, Professor Martin Knudsen, 

 „ Biological Assistant, Dr. A. C. Reichard, 

 „ Plankton Assistant, Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld. 

 According to the suggestion of the General Secretary, the following Gentle- 

 men were elected as Members of the Editorial Committee: — 

 Professor 0. Pettersson, Chairman, 



„ G. GiLSON, 



Geheimrat Fr. Heincke. 

 Mr. Maurice : — "Mr. President and Gentlemen, as a newly elected member 

 of the Bureau, I wish to thank you for the honour you have conferred — I hardly 

 like to say upon myself, whom you know so little — but Upon the Country I 

 represent; and to add a word with reference to the statement you have heard 

 from the General Secretary. When the Bureau were considerate enough to con- 

 sult my friend Professor D'Arcy Thompson and myself with reference to the elec- 



