ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1902-03 



XIV 



Establishment of 

 the Bureau 



Hydrographical 

 Assistant 



A brief note on the establishment of the Bureau may find a place here. The 

 General Secretary took up his post on the day of his appointment, subject to the per- 

 mission of his Government. A five-roomed dwelling house on the ground floor with 

 electric light, central heating etc., was rented in 0stbanegade opposite the 0stbane- 

 gaard and set up as the Bureau. Since the term day (22°*^ October) 1902 , the 

 central station for the international exploration of the sea has had its seat there 

 (Kj0benhavn 0, 0stbanegade 1). 



In accordance with the wish expressed at the meeting of the International 

 Council, Docent Martin Knudsen was appointed first assistant to the Bureau on the 

 l^t of August, 1902. His duties are concerned with the hydrographical work of 

 the Bureau, and he has been specially engaged in the preparation of the Bulletin. 



Biological 

 Assistant 



For the position of second or biological assistant. Dr. H.M.Kyle, Lowestoft 

 (England) was chosen at the Council Meeting of February 1903 , on the proposal 

 of the Bureau. Dr. Kyle took up his post on the 15^* of April , and has been of 

 special assistance to the General Secretary in preparing the plankton tables for the 

 Bulletin, in the work on the literature of the food-fishes of the North Sea, as well 

 as in the preparation of the statistical work. 



Central 

 Laboratory 



At the first meeting of the International Council on the 23"''^ of July 1902, it 

 was resolved that the seat of the Central Laboratory should be in Christiania, and 

 that Professor Fridtjof Nansen should be its Director. Dr. Nansen was desired on 

 the same occasion to get the Laboratory into working order soon, to appoint without 

 delay the two assistants, a chemist and a physicist, and to draw up his plans for 

 the equipment of the Laboratory, and send them to the Bureau. In agreement 

 with these wishes. Dr. Nansen informed the Bureau on October IS*!" 1902, that the 

 Central Laboratory had begun work in the end of September at Kronprinsens- 

 gade 12, Christiania, and that Dr. V. Walfrid Ekman as first assistant (physicist), 

 had entered on his duties on the 1=* of September. In December the scheme of 

 the Director for the equipment of the Laboratory, with an estimate of the expendi- 

 ture (22°"^ July 1902 — 21=' July 1903), was sent to the Bureau and agreed to at 

 the meeting of the International Council on the 23'^'' of February. On that occa- 

 sion Dr. Nansen announced that Dr. Fox, London, had been appointed his second 

 or chemical assistant. 



The receipts of the Central Laboratory amounted in all to Kr. 24095. 15: 

 in addition to the contributions from the Internationa] Council (Er. 11700) and the 

 Norwegian Government (Kr. 10000), a further sum of Kr. 2395. 15 was received in 

 return for instruments delivered. 



