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depleted, many of them even to commercial extinction, through greed and 

 shortsightedness and ill-considered fishery methods, and 



Whereas, It is known that small remnants of fur-seal and sea-otter herds 

 and small numbers of whales and of other commercially valuable species still 

 remain in certain places, and 



Whereas, The rapid recovery of the Alaska fur-seal herd in the short 

 period of ten years from complete commercial ruin to an annual production of 

 more than one million five hundred thousand dollars, as a result of the inter- 

 national fur-seal treaty of 1911, demonstrates conclusively the wonderful re- 

 cuperative power of such depleted natural resources of the sea under inter- 

 national co-operation, and justifies the belief that other depleted fisheries can 

 be rehabilitated through similar co-operation among the nations concerned, 

 and 



Whereas, It is conservatively estimated that these resources when rehabili- 

 tated will yield to the world a regular annual product of more than one-half 

 billion dollars in value, therefore be it 



Resolved, That the Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference strongly recommends 

 that the various countries bordering on, or interested in, the Pacific, take such 

 steps as may be necessary to bring about an international treaty for the resto- 

 ration of the vanishing resources of the Pacific to their former abundance, that 

 they may be maintained for all time as the objects of great commercial fish- 

 eries of which they are easily capable, and be it further 



Resolved, That this Commercial Conference recommends that the govern- 

 ments of the countries bordering on the Pacific enter into correspondence for 

 the purpose of establishing an International Commission for the scientific 

 study of the biology, physics and chemistry of the Pacific in the interest of 

 the restoration, proper utilization, and conservation of its vanishing natural 

 resources. 



These resolutions have since been endorsed by the California Academy of 

 Sciences, the Chambers of Commerce of San Francisco, Los Angeles and San 

 Diego, the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, the San Diego Society 

 of Natural History, the Commonwealth Club of California, and by other or- 

 ganizations. Copies of the resolutions adopted by these various bodies have 

 been communicated to the Department of State and Commerce through the 

 National Research Council at Washington. 



USE OF THE ACADEMY'S LIBRARY AND COLLECTIONS BY 

 INVESTIGATORS AND STUDENTS 



Students and investigators continue to make use of the 

 facilities for research and study afforded by the Academy's 

 library and study collections. 



The Boy Scouts, under Scout Master Harold E. Hansen, 

 continue to hold their regular weekly meetings in the Acad- 

 emy's auditorium. 



PUBLICATIONS BY THE MUSEUM STAFF 



The curators and others connected with the Museum staff 

 have continued, as in the past, to contribute to the literature 

 of their respective subjects. 



The list of their contributions for 1922 is as follows: 



