COMMITTEE B — DECEMBER 1903 { 36) 
Dr. Horx thought that the Committee were agreed on the necessity for the 
continuation of the marking experiments. The English buttons had evidently given 
good results, but he thought there was room for improvement. Other fishes, be- 
sides plaice and soles, should also be marked in future. He proposed to close 
the discussion on the marking of fishes by moving the following resolution: 
Committee B resolves that it is desirable to enlarge the scope of the 
experiments on marked fishes in 1904: (a) by conducting experiments in the 
transplantation of young plaice from the inshore waters to the deeper or less 
crowded waters, and that the plaice to be transplanted should be marked 
with labels in order to investigate any possible increase of growth which may 
take place in the offshore waters, and thus to throw light upon the practical 
utility of similar work in transplantation upon a commercial scale in the 
North Sea and Kattegat; and (b) by experiments with other species of fish. 
This resolution was carried unanimously. 
The meeting adjourned at 4,45 p. m. 
Second Sitting: Friday, December 18th 1903 at 10,30 a. m. 
Present: all the members and gentlemen present the previous day. 
Dr. Hork proposed that the members of the Committee should privately 
consider the positions of their fixed stations, and the program for the marking of 
fish in the year 1904, the points settled the previous day. 
This was agreed to. 
He also announced the arrangements for visiting the Fishery Harbour at 
Ymuiden, and the biological and oceanographical laboratories at Helder, to which 
members were invited by Mr. Bottemanne and Dr. Redeke. 
The plenary sitting was resumed at 12 o'clock. 
(6) Mr. Garstang invited the Committee to consider the question of the tabulation 
and publication of results, as proposed in his opening address. He added that 
the summary which he proposed to prepare might be illustrated with advantage by 
one or two charts displaying graphically the relative abundance of the most impor- 
