COUNCIL — SEPT. 1912 - APPENDIX C — 70 



Appendix C 



Protocol of the Hydrographieal Section. 



Meeting of 18th— 21st September 1912. 



Agenda: 



a. Report on the work of the Hydrographical Department of the Bureau from 

 April 1912. 



b. Preliminary report on the continual hydrographical observations carried out 

 from ships at anchor in the North Sea during the first half of August 1912. 



c. Proposal regarding the establishment of a hydrographical laboratory with a 

 stock of hydrographical apparatus. 



d. Communication and discussion as to the hydrographical investigations to be 

 expected from the various countries in the course of the year 1912 — 13. 



e. Other matters. 



First Sitting: Wednesday, 18th Sept. 1912 at 3 p. m. 



Chairman: Prof. Knudsen. 



Secretary: Dr. Gerhke. 



Also present: Ekman, Green, Jacobsen, Jee, Pettersson, Schultze, U'Arcy Thompson, 



Tydemah, Witting. Later: Maurice. 



The chairman, Professor Knodsen, acknowledged the great and valuable 

 services which Professor Otto Krümmel, formerly Member of the Section, had 

 rendered both to hydrography in general and to the hydrographical work of the 

 International Cooperation for the Study of the Sea. Prof. Krümmel had, with his 

 "Handbuch der Ozeanographie" inscribed his name in the annals of science, and 

 his eminent personal qualities would ever be remembered by the Section. 



The meeting unanimously agreed to the sentiments expressed. 

 Prof. Knudsen then read a brief report of the work of the hydrographical 

 department of the Bureau since the last meeting in April of this year. Owing to 



