COMMITTEE A — FEBR.-MARCH 1906 (10) 
ask the members of the Committee for their assistance and in any case hoped to 
rouse some interest in this matter. 
Under Head 3 (Report on the work of the Gommittee) the Convener 
stated that some doubt existed as to the manner in which the report should be 
drawn up. He believed there were two views, namely, that some members would 
prefer to work up their own material, whilst others were willing to leave their 
material or at least a portion of it to him to be worked up. He considered it 
necessary that each member should have complete freedom to do with his ma- 
terial as seemed best to him; but he should like to draw attention to the example 
given by Committee C2. In this case the material was given to certain workers 
and these had prepared reports on the parts allotted to them. He should like to 
ascertain the opinions of the members present of the Committee on this point also. 
Prof. Hrtncks expressed his entire agreement with the form chosen by Com- 
mittee C9, that is, a division of the report into a general part and a special part 
containing reports on special portions of the investigations. He did not think it 
necessary, however, that the general part should be so brief. As regards the spe- 
cial part, a division of the work seemed to him very desirable: one member might 
report on the eggs and larvae of the gadoids, another on the rate of growth and 
geographical distribution, a third on the herring etc. 
Dr. Petersen stated that international cooperation had been shown in the 
preparation of the report of Committee C2 and that the investigators in the dif- 
ferent countries had given their material to the Conveners. 
Dr. Trysom perfectly agreed with the views of Dr. PrTERseEn. 
Dr. REDEkE expressed himself as in general in agreement with the previous 
speakers, but did not see how it would be possible to prepare the general part 
so long as the whole material had not been worked out, the reports over the 
material published and placed at the disposal of the Convener. 
Dr. WALTER Garstang emplasized the necessity of the report being drawn 
up by the Convener and then sent to the members of the Committee for their 
consideration. He believed it necessary that the Convener should prepare all the 
parts of the report. | ; 
Prof. D’Arcy THompson considered it impossible as a matter of time that 
the report could contain all details as well as general conclusions. On the other 
hand it would only be possible to prepare a complete general report when all the 
material had been published; in his opinion consequently, theleader of the invest- 
