b. Committees 
c, Hydrogr. 
Section 
d. Statistical 
Section 
Work of the 
Bureau at 
Copenhagen 
A, Publications 
a, Bulletin 
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accorded to the International Council on that occasion by the Dutch Government, 
by the R. Academy of Science, as also by the R. Zoological Society “Natura Artis 
Magistra”, may be gratefully acknowledged here. 
The interest which H. M. the Queen of the Netherlands, the Ministers of 
Foreign Affairs and of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce as also the scientific 
institutions of Holland mentioned, displayed in the Meeting of the International 
Council, is regarded as a proof of the sympathy felt in Holland for the Interna- 
tional Investigations of the Sea. 
The Committees appointed by the International Council met in the same 
week in which the meeting of the International Council took place, namely, on 
the 28th of February and the ist of March at Amsterdam. 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 wil be devoted 
later to the work of these Committees during the year 1905—1906. 
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, and this Section held several meetings on the 28th of February, 
and the ist and 2nd of March. A provisional agenda for these meetings was 
drawn up by Docent Martin Knupsen. For the matters discussed there, reference 
may likewise be made to the Procés-Verbaux. 
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 meeting of the Council (on the ist of March), that 
the Bureau had proposed an Agenda for this meeting and that the subjects dis- 
cussed at this sitting are likewise published in the Proces-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: 
A. Editing of the publications af the International Council. 
a. Of the Bulletin 4 numbers have appeared: ß 
1904—05 No. 3 for February 1905, published in August 1905. 
— - 4 - May — , — - November 1905. 
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