56S CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4th Ser. 



"The Conservation and Proper Utilization of our Natural 

 Resources," and President Grunsky presented a paper on 

 "The Interstate and International Aspects of the Colorado 

 River Problem." 



Among those appearing on the programs or in attendance 

 were the following: 



Edward A. Beals, C. E. Grunsky, Jr., Barton Warren Evermann, L. O. 

 Howard, David Starr Jordan, Edgar Lucien Larkin, E. P. Lewis, A. L. Lovett, 

 D. T. MacDougal, James McMurphy, Howard S. Reed, W. W. Sargeant, 

 F. B. Sumner, E. P. Van Duzee, Mrs. E. P. Van Duzee, Bailey Willis. 



THE PAN-PACIFIC UNION COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE AT 

 HONOLULU, OCTOBER 25 TO NOVEMBER 8, 1922 



The Director of the Museum was in attendance upon this 

 Conference as the representative of the National Research 

 Council, the National Academy of Sciences, the California 

 Academy of Sciences, and the Pacific Division of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science; he was 

 also one of the delegates from the San Francisco Chamber 

 of Commerce. 



The Conference proved very important and successful. 

 There were present delegates from nearly all the countries 

 bordering on the Pacific, and many problems of common in- 

 terest to those countries were discussed. Among those 

 which received much attention was that of the fisheries of 

 the Pacific on which the Director presented a paper, the 

 specific title of which was "The Conservation of the Marine 

 Life of the Pacific." This paper called attention to 

 the former abundance of a number of natural resources of 

 the sea and their almost or complete commercial extinction 

 through greed and improper fishery methods. He showed 

 that these resources can be restored only through an inter- 

 national treaty participated in by all countries bordering on 

 the Pacific. 



Following the reading of the paper, the Conference unani- 

 mously adopted the following resolutions: 



Whereas, It is known that many valuable species of marine mammals such 

 as fur seals, sea otters, elephant seals and whales, and many species of impor- 

 tant food fishes such as salmon and halibut, formerly occurred in the Pacific 

 in such vast numbers as to constitute the objects of fisheries whose annual 

 products were worth more than one hundred million dollars, and 



Whereas, Nearly all of those great natural resources have been seriously 



