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Atlantic water penetrating the North Sea, more particularly with regard to their 

 relation to the Scottish herring fisheries. The position of the western boundary line 

 of the cold bottom water of the northern North Sea will be traced as frequently as 

 possible. 



5) Sweden intends to take care of the Skagerak and the Kattegat, as usual; together 

 with its investigations in the Baltic. 



6) Holland intends to carry out hydrographical investigations on the same scale as in 

 this last year. 



7) Ireland will work on the same lines as in the two previous years. 



8) Belgium will undertake hydrographical cruises in the North Sea between Belgium 

 and England; and on these cruises sj)ecial attention will be paid to the oxygen con- 

 tents of the water layers near the bottom. 



9) Denmark intends to try to undertake serial measurements in the Baltic atChristians0 

 (comp, the Resolutions of the Baltic Committee). Further current-measurements will, 

 if possible, be carried out at the lightships Schultz's Grund and Halskov, in 

 connection with similar measurements undertaken by Sweden at the lightship Fladen. 

 — The current-measurements at the lightship Horns Rev in the North Sea are to 

 be continued, as well as the surface-observations by commercial steamers on the roixtes : 

 Esbjerg — Parkestone and Copenhagen — New York. 



V. The material for the period 1914 — 1919 is to be sent in to the Bureau, and 

 collated here together with the material after this period. The total material 

 is to be laid before the next meeting of the Council; and the question of the 

 issue of the Bulletin is to be reconsidered. 



The Report of the Atlantic Slope Committee should be published in 

 the "Rapports," and it should be a recommendation to the Editorial Commit- 

 tee, that in respect of charts, sections and tables, the Report should conform 

 to the practice previously follovi^ed in the Council's publications. 



Programme of the Limnological Section. 



The Committee decided to adopt, for the ensuing year, the programme 

 framed at the meeting in 1921, and set out on page 42 of the "Procès Verbaux," 

 Vol. XXVII. Dr. Redeke will continue to act as Reporter of the Committee. 



Professor Joubin, on behalf of Dr. Roule, presented the following reports 

 of his observations on Alosa and Acipenser: — 



