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participating states should send two representatives to this council. It had also 

 been recommended that this council should meet in Copenhagen as soon as the 

 final decisions of all the states had been made known. In the beginning of June 

 1902, therefore, the Danish Government invited the states which had taken part 

 in the conferences, to send representatives once again to a conference at Copen- 

 hagen, and it recommended that these representatives should be given full powers 

 to constitute the International Council and that this third conference should be 

 regarded as its first meeting. 



The participating 

 States 



Constitution of 



the International 



Council; 



A. Members 



The following states: Denmark, Germany, Finland, Great Britain, The Nether- 

 lands, Norway, Russia and Sweden replied to this invitation, and the first meeting 

 of the International Council for the study of the sea took place at Copenhagen on 

 the 22"* of July, 1902. , 



At this meeting the various countries were represented as follows:. 



Denmark: Captain C. F. Dreghsel, Commander of the Port at Copenhagen. 



Mr. Martin Knudsen, Docent at the University, Copenhagen. 

 Germany: Dr. W. Herwig, "Wirklicher Geheimer Oberregierungsrath", President 

 of the "Deutscher Seefischerei- Verein", Hannover. 

 Dr. 0. KrOmmel, Professor at the University, Kiel. 

 England : Colonel Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff , Under-Secretary for Scotland, 



Chelsea. 

 Dr. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Professor at University College, 

 ■ Dundee. 

 Finland: Dr. Theodor Homén, Professor at the University, Helsingfors. 



Dr. Oscar Nordquist, Inspector of Fisheries, Helsingfors. 

 The Netherlands : Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, Scientific Adviser in Fishery Matters, Helder. 

 Norway: Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, Professor at the University, Christiania. 



Dr. Johan Hjort, "Fiskeridirektor", Bergen. 

 Russia: Dr. Nikolai Knipowitsch, Conservator at the Zoological Museum, 



St. Petersburg. 

 Sweden: Dr. Otto Pettersson, Professor at the "Högskola", Stockholm. 



Dr. FiLip Trybom, First Assistant-Inspector of Fisheries*), Stockholm. 



*) Since January 1'^ 1903, Inspector of Fisheries for Sweden. 



