GOMMITTEE A — FEBR.-MARCH 1906 (14) 
Second Sitting: Thursday, March 1st at 4 p. m. 
General-Secretary Dr. P. P. CG. Hork in the chair. 
: Present: the same gentlemen as at the first sitting. 
The Convener Dr. Jonan Hiorr explained that no conclusion had yet been 
reached with regard to Point 4 (Investigations of the herring) and it seemed 
to him desirable, as the members of the Committee had collected a good deal of 
material on the herring and much had been done, that the Committee’s report 
should also contain a section on the herring. He had spoken with Prof. Hrmncke 
with regard to this matter and informed him, that the Norwegian investigations 
were so far advanced that a report on them could be prepared. 
Prof. Heıncke thought it very important that the Committee’s report should 
also contain the results obtained from the observations and investigations of recent 
years on the herring. j 
After a brief discussion, during which it appeared that Sweden, Holland 
and others had also worked at the herring during the period of the international 
investigations, the Committee declared it necessary that the report to be published 
should also contain the results of these investigations, and Prof. HEINGKE was re- 
quested to edit the report on the herring. 
Prof. Hencxe promised to undertake this work. 
Finally, the General Secretary reported on what the Bureau had done to 
determine, whether it was financially and otherwise practicable to publish the re- 
sults of all the hauls made on the international investigating cruises in a uniform 
manner. As it appeared that such a publication would be a very extensive and 
costly matter, the Bureau had found it necessary to be convinced first of all, that 
it was really desired from all sides, so that the Bureau could rely upon the willing 
support of all the leaders of the international investigation cruises in carrying out 
this work. By correspondence with these gentlemen it appeared that the results 
of the German, English, Norwegian and also the Scottish hauls had been or would 
be published by these countries themselves, and that Belgium, Denmark, Holland 
and Sweden laid stress on the publication being undertaken by the Bureau. If 
we were now at the beginning of the work and the Bureau was asked to publish 
a three-monthly or half-yearly report on the results of the hauls of all the invest- 
igation-steamers, the Bureau would be perfectly willing to do so: as a matter 
