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by means of committees had also its difficulties and he thought it preferable, therefore, 
when organising work had to be done, that it should be done direct from the Bureau. 
At the present time also, there was an additional difticulty im the way of forming 
another committee namely, that the imternational cooperation, according to Mr. 
ArcHer’s statement of the previous day, could only count upon two more years, 
and it hardly seemed worth while to form a new committee for such a short 
period. As the members present were in favour of a statistical committee, how- 
ever, and it was understood that this commitlee was to be advisory only, he 
would again bring the matter before the other members of the Bureau and an- 
nounce their decision on the following day. 
The sitting then terminated at 4 p. m. 
Second Sitting: Thursday July 20 at 2 p.m. 
P. P. G. Horx, General Secretary, in the chair. 
Present also: WALTER E. ARCHER, WALTER Garstane, G. Gitson, H. Henxine, E. W. L. Hor, 
H. M. Kyır, Artour T. Masterman, H. C. Repexe, D'Arcy W. THompson and as guest Dr. A. C. 
JOHANSEN. 
Secretary: H. M. Kyrr. 
On reopening the proceedings, the chairman said, that the chief work of the 
meeting would be to consider Point 9 of the agenda. Before opening the discus- 
sion, however, he wished to state, that he had laid before his colleagues of the 
Bureau the desire of the Section to form a special advisory Statistical Committee 
and that the Bureau had agreed to it. If the members present would draw up a 
proposal expressing their desire, it could be laid before the meeting of the I. C. 
on the following day. Meantime they would proceed to the discussion of Point 2 
of the agenda before the Section. 
Point 2, Other problems to be dealt with, having been read, it 
was generally agreed that the international statistical publications. should deal 
with the statistics referred to and that this should be expressed definitely. 
Under 2 a, “the destruction of small plaice”, Dr. Kyte explained 
the nature of the statistical material which had so far been received by. the Bureau. 
There had not been sufficient time to have a complete report on this material 
ready for the meeting, but he had prepared tables shewing for each country the 
results obtainable from the data sent in to the Bureau, and these he laid before 
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