COUNCIL — FEBRUARY 1904 6 
First Sitting: Thursday February 25th at 12.30 p.m. 
President Dr. W. Herwre in the chair. 
Present, all the Members and Experts; 
as guests, the Members of the Committees. 
The chair was taken at 12.30 p. m. by the President, Dr. Herwic, who wel- 
comed all present, and especially Mr. ArcHer (Great Britain) and MM. Gmson and 
Hamman (Belgium) who came as members of the Council for the first time. 
Under Head | of the Agenda, the proposed expenditure for the financial" 
year 1903—1904 was considered paragraph by paragraph. The items of receipt 
and expenditure were taken up and approved one by one; the decision concerning 
Head VII Nr. 25 was postponed till after the discussion on Head 5 of the Agenda. 
With this reservation the scheme of expenditure was accepted unanimously (Ap- 
pendix A to the present Proces-Verbal). 
Under Head 2 of the Agenda, on the proposal of the President, the same 
gentlemen as in the foregoing year, viz. Prof. Hommy, Prof. D’Arcy W. THomeson 
and Dr. Trysom, were appointed members of the Finance Committee. 
Under Head 3 of the Agenda, the President proposed that Prof. Hemcxe be 
elected as a member for Germany to Committee B, in place of Prof. Henxine who 
wished to resign, and that Prof. Gizson be nominated to that Committee for Belgium. 
The proposal being adopted the gentlemen named were duly elected and 
accepted the nomination. 
Under Head 4, Captain Drecuset referring to the circular distributed amongst 
the members of the Council (Appendix B to the present Proces-Verbal) explained 
the desirability of a telegraphic communication with Iceland and the Faroe Isles, 
in the interests of the fisheries and of meteorology as well as of the international 
investigations. 
Since several of the delegates wished to consider the circular (Appendix B) 
more closely, a decision was postponed till next day’s sitting of the council. 
Coming to Head 5 of the Agenda, Professor Krümmez stated that the hydro- 
graphers of the International Council present (viz. Messrs. Perrersson, NANSEN, 
