STATISTICAL COMM. — MARCH 1906 (72) 
Henkıns and Mr. ArcHEer were present at that moment. He did not see therefore 
how they could obtain an expression of opinion from the Statistical Committee. 
Mr. Arcuer suggested that those present, whether called a Section or Committee, 
might discuss the possible adoption of these schedules. He hoped that, if any 
country not at present represented on the Statistical Committee desired to have a 
representative on it, the Council would take the necessary steps. 
After a brief discussion Dr. Horx said that it did not appear possible for 
the members to decide at that moment upon the schedules. These had just been 
placed in their hands and the obvious feeling amongst the members was that the 
schedules would require some time to understand. He would propose therefore, 
that Mr. ArcHER should leave the schedules in the hands of the Bureau so that 
copies of them both in English and German might be sent to the statistical repre- 
sentatives in the various countries. The Bureau would at the same time ask the 
representatives to return an expression of opinion on the schedules to the Bureau 
as soon-as possible, within a month or six weeks. The Bureau would then pre- 
pare the subject for further deliberation at the next meeting of the International 
Council. 
Mr. Rew said that if the Bureau wished it they would prepare both the 
German and English copies of the schedules in London and then send them to the 
Bureau for transmission to the various countries. 
Dr. Hozx said that this would undoubtedly be a great convenience, as the 
Bureau’s time and energies would be very severely taxed during the next few 
months. He would therefore gladly accept Mr. Rew’s offer. 
Under Head 3, Nets experiments, Dr. Hork said the desire had been to 
discuss the work for this year, but as there was no time for that he hoped the 
members would leave the organisation of the work in the hands of the Bureau as 
before. Some important experiments however had been made last summer by 
Prof. Hencxe and he would ask Prof. Heincxe to give a brief report upon them. 
Prof. Heıncke said that he had been endeavouring to find the true value of 
the ordinary commercial trawl as a scientific fishing apparatus. For this purpose 
he had chosen a small and suitable area of about 3 square miles in extent and 
had worked over it with 5 or 6 different kinds of nets of different shape, different 
mesh etc. The result was that no one net could possibly give a correct represen- 
