Appendix C 
b, Biological 
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tions have been made on the determination of temperatures by means of the 
resistance in telegraph-cables and the results laid before the Hydrographical Section 
at its meeting in Amsterdam. 
The hydrographical department has been of assistance in carrying on the 
necessary correspondence for the Committee appointed in reference to the collection 
of water-samples for the determination of Cl—¢,—SO,. 
Further, the “Brief Summary of the present State and of some of the most 
important Results of the Hydrographical Investigations prepared by the Hydro- 
graphical Section of the Couneil at Amsterdam, March 1906” has been finally 
revised for publication and the correspondence necessary for this purpose has been 
carried on with the different members of the Hydrographical Section. 
Mr. Jon. Geurke, Cand. mag., and Miss KIRSTINE Suir, Cand. mag., have been 
acting as assistants of the hydrographical department of the Bureau. 
As an appendix to the hydrographical work of the Bureau carried out during 
the year 1905—06, it may be mentioned that a report has been received from 
Mr. G. P. Binper regarding his investigation of the bottom-currents of the North Sea 
by means of bottom-trailers. This is added to the present report as Appendix C. 
The Bureau would use this opportunity to express its special thanks to Mr. G. P. 
Binper for his report. 
b. The work of the Bureau during the year 1905—06 in connection with 
the international fisheries statistics has been devoted mainly to the preparation of 
the Statistical Bulletin. It will be remembered that after the Bureau had been 
given the task of organising the fisheries statistics, so far as these are of importance 
from an international standpoint, summaries were drawn up and published showing 
the condition of the fisheries statistics in each country concerned in the North Sea 
and Kattegat fisheries for the years previous to 1903. As a result of this prepa- 
ratory work, proposals regarding the manner in which fisheries statistics, viewed 
from an international standpoint, may in future be arranged on an uniform basis 
were drawn up by the Bureau and agreed to at the Copenhagen Meeting of the 
Council in July 1905. The Statistical Bulletin embodies the result of these propo- 
sals. As stated at the Amsterdam Meeting in February—March 1906, the Bureau 
considered the preparation and publication of this Bulletin to be the first neces- 
sary step in the direction of obtaining a uniform system of international statistics. 
