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Point 4a of the Agenda. (Report as to the present participation.) 



The General Secretary then made the following statement: As will be seen 

 from my Memorandum about the participation of the various countries, only 

 Germany has officially withdrawn from the Council, and the Council has during the 

 war been supported by Great Britain, Holland and the Scandinavian countries: 

 Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Thereby the Council has been kept in being, and 

 it has enabled all the departments of the Bureau to continue the work during the 

 war. The Council, the Bureau, and all interested in this work are very much in debt 

 to those which have in this way given their support. 



Point 5 of the Agenda. (Work carried out during the War.) 



In the above named "Rapports et Procès-Verbaux" from the war time will 

 be found the reports of the work carried out by the departments of the Bureau during 

 this time. I have therefore now only to report about the work carried out during 

 the past financial year 1918 — 19. 



The reports of the various departments of the Bureau (see page I)wereread. 



Now about the general work in connection with the resolutions carried 

 out by the Council, I beg to refer to the above named Rapports et Procès- 

 Verbaux Vol. XXI, for 1913 — 14, containing, besides the usual reports etc., 

 a statement of the position regarding all matters dealt with by the Council at the 

 outbreak of the war, as for instance the British proposal regarding five years partici- 

 pation, the North Sea Plaice question, the Baltic Plaice question, the Atlantic 

 Hydrographical research question, the Salmon question, and the Statistical question. 

 In this Procès-Verbaux will also be found all official answers fromthe 

 various governments received through the Danish Foreign Office. 



Based upon these statements I propose now regarding these* matters to 

 report only about what has been carried out since the period of above named 

 Rapports et Procès- Verbaux of 1913—14, Vol. XXI. 



Point 8 of the Agenda. (Danish Atlantic Expedition for Sea Research) 

 One of the subjects dealt with in this volume, viz. the plan to carry out Atlantic 

 research by the man-of-wars of the various nations which were to be represent- 

 ed at the opening of the Panama Canal, must of course be considered abolished. 

 It has, however, been replaced on the agenda by the plan for a Danish Atlantic ex- 

 pedition for Sea Research which will be dealt with at this meeting. 



Point 6 of the Agenda. (Communication and Deliberation regard- 

 ing the Plaice question of the North Sea and the Baltic. Danish 

 proposal as to the minimum measure for Plaice landed.) 



Of the remaining questions the Plaice question will be dealt with separately 

 on point 6 of the agenda, and a special Memorandum about it, by the General Secre- 

 tary and Dr. A. C. Johansen, has been distributed. 



This Memorandum deals with the North Sea plaice question. I need there- 



