ADMINISTRATION-REPORT 1902-03 — XVI — 



The expenses up to the 21=^ of July 1903, amounted in all to Kr. 22869. 38, 

 and were made up as follows: 



Salaries Kr. 7475. 32 



Rent including light and heating - 1 165. 92 



Postage, freights etc - 658. 94 



Travelling expenses - 366. 69 



Installation of gas and water - 833. 25 



Inventory and tools - 2465. 01 



Books - 149.70 



Instruments for use in laboratory - 2102. 90 



Chemicals and glassware - 1129. 79 



Experiments with hydrographical apparatus - 1479. 58 



Hire of ships - 196. 50 



Diverse articles for use, etc - 515. 50 



Value of instruments to be had on demand - 4330. 28 



Kr. 22869. 38 



The balance at the end of the first financial year was Kr. 1225. 57. 



A report by the Director on the working of the Laboratory during its 

 first year is appended as Appendix A to this Report. Attention may be called 

 here to the fact (Appendix A IV) that the Central Laboratory has begun to 

 prepare and distribute standard -water samples at the end of its first year. 

 As is well-known, Docent Knudsen had pointed out the great advantage of 

 using standard -water at the Stockholm conference, and had prepared standard- 

 water for use in the international work in the summer of 1900 and again in the 

 summer of 1902. The hydrographers in the various countries have used this 

 standard-water up to the present*). As the stock-supply at Copenhagen of the 

 tubes containing the standard-water had gradually become greatly reduced in the 

 course of the year, the Director of the Central Laboratory Avas made acquainted 

 with the state of affairs. The Laboratory has now taken over the management of 

 the matter, and Prof. Nansen, in accordance with § 13 part C of the Christiania 

 programme, will in future procure the standard seawater. 



T''« The main facts with regard to the establishment of the International 



of the Work of Gouncil , the Central Bureau and the International Laboratory have thus been 



Exploration 



*) Martin Knudsen, On the Standard- water used in the Hydrographical Research until July 

 1903. Publications de Girconstauce : No. 2, Juillet 1903. 



