COMMITTEE A — FEBRUARY 1904 
Meeting of Committee A at Hamburg 
Tuesday February 23"? and Wednesday February 24th at 10 a.m. 
President Dr. W. Herwıc in the chair. 
The following members of the Committee were present: D’Arcy WentwortH THompson, 
W. Garsranc, Fr. Hencke, N. Kyreowrrscu, C. G. Jos. Prrersen, H. C. Repexe, F. Trygom and 
Joman Hyorr (Convener). si 
Also, the members of the Bureau and all the members of the International Council, the 
experts and others. i 
Dr. Hrorr (Convener) laid before the meeting a report, printed as manuscript, 
on the work of the Committee A from August 1902—February 1904. In a lengthy 
discourse he went through the contents of this report and at the same time 
displayed a series of charts and graphical representations, e.g. charts of the Nor- 
wegian coastal banks, photographs of fishing boats, representations of statistical 
data concerning the quantities of fish landed at the various ports of the North 
Sea and Northern Ocean, and of data concerning catches in the North Sea, charts 
showing the distribution of the pelagic young stages of the various species of 
gadoids, curves showing rate of growth and so on. He presented to each member 
‚of the Committee a copy of the reports with blank interleaves, with the request 
that they would place there whatever observations they wished to make and return 
them to him. ; 
Professor HEıncke gave a discourse on his still unfinished researches on 
the determination of the age and rate of growth of fishes by means of the 
otoliths and various bones, as the vertebre, pectoral girdle, opercular bones — 
and so on. à 
Dr. C. G. Jon. Prrersen laid before the meeting a preliminary notice pre- 
pared by Dr. Scummr on the determination of post-larval gadoids (“Some prelim- a 
inary Remarks on the Identification of pelagic post-larval Forms of Gadus”). Dr. 
Petersen said that this report was to be regarded as manuscript and that 
Dr. Scummr would publish later a detailed and systematic work with many 
explanatory illustrations on the larval and post-larval stages of the gadoids. He 
