Audit 
of Accounts 
Meetings 
a, International 
Council 
b. Committees 
c. Hydrogr. 
Section 
d, Statistical 
Section 
Work of the 
Bureau at 
Copenhagen 
ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1904—05 == Wil — 
The statement of receipts and expenditure for the third year prepared by 
the General Secretary was first of all submitted to the Honorary Treasurer, Cap- 
tain C. F. Drecusez, for examination and then sent to the members of the Audit 
Committee in accordance with § 9 of the regulations for the International Council! 
The meeting of the International Council took place in Copenhagen at the 
end of the financial year, namely, on the 21* of July 1905. For the resolutions 
passed there, reference may be made to the Procés-Verbaux. The hospitable 
reception accorded to the International Council on that occasion by the Minister 
of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency Count Rapen-Lrvetzat, as also by the Directors 
of the harbour of Copenhagen may be gratefully recalled to mind. 
The Committees appointed by the International Council met in Copenhagen 
on the days previous to the Meeting of the Council: 18, 19!k and 20% July. For 
the decisions passed, and for the resolutions submitted afterwards to the Meeting 
of the Council, reference may also be made to the Procés-Verbaux. A few words 
will be devoted later to the work of these Committees during the year 1904—05. 
The meeting of the International Council provided the opportunity for those 
members and experts etc. who were specially interested in hydrographical questions 
to meet together; on the proposal of Prof. ©. Krümmer supported by Prof. 
O. Prrrersson, Prof. Fr. Nansen and Docent M. Knunsen a Hydrographical Section 
was appointed by the Bureau, and this Section held several meetings in the 
period from the 18th—90th July 1905. For the matters discussed there, reference 
may likewise be made to the Proces-Verbaux. ony 
Further, it has also to be mentioned here, that the members of the Council 
and the various experts specially interested in fisheries statistics, so far as these 
are of importance from an international standpoint, also formed themselves into a 
„Section on the occasion of the General Meeting; the subjects discussed at the two 
sittings held by the Section are likewise published in the Procés-Verbaux. 
Apart from the ordinary business (correspondence, administration, prepara- 
tions for the meetings of the International Council as for those of the Committees 
and Sections, despatch of publications, library etc.) the Bureau in Copenhagen has 
been specially occupied with the following: 
1 Note during printing: the Committee has found the statement in order. P.P.C.H. 
