Meetings 
a, International 
Council 
b, Committees 
Work of the 
Bureau at 
Copenhagen 
ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1903—04 — VI — 
The International Council held one meeting in the course of the second year, 
at Hamburg on the 25 and 26% of February 1904. Information with regard to 
the resolutions passed there will be found in the proceedings of the meeting. The 
hospitable and friendly reception given to the International Council by the Senate 
of the Free and Hansa towns of Hamburg and Bremen and by the directors of the 
Hamburg-America Line must be gratefully recalled to mind here. The interest 
which the great sea-ports of Germany displayed in the meeting of the International 
Council may: be regarded as a further proof of the general sympathy which has 
been called forth by the aim and endeavours of the email study of 
the sea. 
In conjunction with the meeting at Hamburg a visit was made on February 
27% to the royal harbour at Geestemünde and the fishery harbours of Bremerhaven 
and Geestemtinde. This occasion was utilized to make an excursion “Poseidon” 
steamer on the royal in the mouth of the Weser, and acquaintance was thereby 
made both with the ship itself and with various forms of fishing apparatus. A 
hospitable reception was there given to the Council by the German Sea Fisheries 
Association. 
The work of the committees established by the Council will be further men- 
tioned later; the following meetings were held by them: 
Committee A met at Hamburg on the 93:4 and 24th of February. On the 
25‘ of February, the convener, Dr. Jou. Horr, reported orally on the resolutions 
agreed upon at the meetings of the committee, and also concerning the present 
position of the investigations which are being carried out by his committee. The 
proposals then presented are contained in the report of the (Hamburg) meeting of | 
the International Council. 
Committee B met at Amsterdam on the 17% and 18 of December 1903, 
and a detailed report of the meeting has been published. The committee met 
again at Hamburg on the 24th of February. The resolutions passed at this meeting, 
which deal with the delimitation of the scope of the work of the committee, were 
laid before the International Council for confirmation by the convener, Mr. W. Gar- 
STANG, and are to be found in the protocol of the Hamburg meeting. 
Committee C held no meeting during the course of this year. 
Apart from current affairs (correspondence, administration, distribution of 
publications, library etc.) the Bureau has been especially engaged with the fol- 
lowing work: 
