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had prepared this report to serve as an aid to the determination of those pelagic 
gadoids which the international research steamers might obtain during the 
year 1904. 
Professor D’Arcy THompson showed the Committee a series of graphic repre- 
sentations of the catches of Scottish trawlers in different years and at different 
periods of the year. 
After the members of the Committee had expressed their opinions on var- 
ious point raised in the report of the Convener, it was agreed unanimously to 
send into the International Council a set of resolutions!) concerning the contin- 
uation of the work of the Committee, and concerning the working out of the 
Committee’s final report on the biology of the cod and on the cod fisheries within 
the region under observation. 
The meeting concluded Wednesday February 24% 11.30 a. m. 
W. Herwic 
JoHAN Hyorr 
Meeting of Committee B at Hamburg 
Tursday February 25th at 10.30 a. m. 
President Dr. W. Herwie in the chair. 
The following members of the Committee were present: 7. Wemyss Fuzron, G. Ganson, 
Er. Hewoxe, C. G. Jou. Petersen, H. C. Revere, F. Trysom and W. Garstane (Convener). 
Also the members of the Bureau and all the members of the International Council, the 
experts and others. 
Cee at Amsterdam, little business of an ordinary character would be su 
mitted to the members. A question had arisen, however, concerning the scope o 
the work referred to the Committee, which, he thought, had never been clearl; 
defined. He thought that it would be advantageous if the Committee could limi 
their responsibilities to the experimental work, which was sufficiently extensive in 
itself, in order that the Bureau might retain entire charge of the statistical and 
1) Cf. Proceedings of the meeting of the International Council in Hamburg of February 
1904, p. 10. 
