ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 19i%-"/i8 — 6 — 



For 1917—18 the balance at the end of the year was Kr. 52306.84, while the 

 estimated balance was Kr. 41622.00. 

 Revision of the , The accounts for 1916 — 17 and 1917 — 18 have been revised by the Financial 

 ^"-"iTand Committee and found correct. They will be submitted to the International Council 

 1917-18 for its final approval at the next meeting. 



As to the result of the work of the department for 1916 — 17 and 1917 — 18, the 

 following details have been reported by the Heads of the Departments, Professor 

 Knudsen, Professor Ostenfeld, and Captain Sch0ning. 



Report of work carried out by the Departments of 

 the Bureau during the financial years July 1916 — ^July 1918. 



I. Hydrographical Department. 



The elaborating of the Atlantic surface material was continued, and the tables 

 made ready for printing. Various sketches of graphical representations of the results 

 were prepared as drafts, and, as the final mode of representation had been fixed, 

 those areas were selected where a graphical view of the temperature variations 

 seemed to be desirable. These diagrams were then constructed and made ready for 

 reproduction. 



Furthermore, an introduction to the ''Bulletin Atlantique" was written, and the 

 total manuscript laid before the meeting in Copenhagen in May, 1918. 



A short account of the preparation of this Bulletin and of some of the results 

 shown by the tables was elaborated and given as an address to the meeting of geo- 

 physicians in Göteborg in August, 1918. 



Plans for future work to be done at the hydrographical department were pre- 

 pai'ed and laid before the meeting in Copenhagen in May, 1918, for discussion. 



Finally, a paper on the relative contents of oxygen in the surface water of the 

 Gulf of Finland has been written and made ready for publication. 



2. Plankton Department, 



1. The Head of the Department has continued the elaboration of the concluding 

 "General part" of the "Résumé planktonique". 



2. The Department has finished the printing of "Catalogue des espèces de 

 plantes et d'animaux observées dans le plankton . . . depuis le mois de 

 juin 1908 jusqu'au mois de décembre 1911", which has appeared in December, 

 1916, as "Publication de Circonstance No. 70". 



3. The Department has begun the printing of H. H. Gran and T. Gaarder's 

 paper; Über den Einfluss der atmosphärischen Veränderungen Nord-Europas 

 auf die hydrographischen Verhältnisse des Kristianiafjords bei Dröbak im 

 März 1916. 



