Report 



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may therefore confidently rely on my exerting my utmost efforts, as soon as 

 the present disturbances have subsided, to procure the renewal of Germany's parti- 

 cipation in the International Investigation of the Sea". 



The Council has, after Geheimer Legationsrat Rose's withdrawal as Presi- 

 dent, by correspondence elected the senior Vice-President, Professor Petteksson, 

 of Holma, Sweden, as President of the International Council. Professor Petteks- 

 son has acted as President since March 1915. 



Dr. Reichard, Biological Assistant, left the Bureau at the outbreak of 

 the war. The statistical work of his department has since that time been carried 

 on by Captain Schöning. 

 Admhistrative ^he latest of the "Rapports & Procès-Verbaux" published (for 1913 — 14), 



Rapport Administratif etc., contains, besides the usual Report of Administration, 

 Statement of Accounts, Budget etc., a statement of the position of all matters 

 dealt with by the Council at the outbreak of the present war, viz. the British 

 proposal regarding five years' participation and answers as to this matter received 

 from the various Governments, the state of the North Sea plaice question, the 

 Baltic plaice question, the Atlantic hydrographical research question, the salmon 

 question, and the Protocol of the Statistical Committee. 



The object of this has been to furnish members of the Council with suffi- 

 cient data for resumption of the international work at the next Council meeting. 



Since the issuing of the said report for 1913 — 14, no Council meeting has 

 taken place. However, all work which could possibly be carried out in relation 

 to resolutions of the Council has been done, viz. salmon investigations in Den- 

 mark, Germany and Sweden, herring investigations in the Kattegat and Skage- 

 rack, and eel investigations. In some countries, measurements of plaice are 

 carried on in order to ascertain the growth of plaice during the last years. 



In a letter of 2nd November 1914, Professor Heincke stated that he was 

 willing, privately, and also without any claim for incidental expenses, to continue 

 the General Report, as soon as he should have received the English plaice material. 



As to the statistical work of the Bureau, Professor D'Arcy Thompson, 

 chairman of the Statistical Committee, has undertaken the editorship of the 

 Statistical Bulletin after Dr. Reichard's resignation from the Bureau. 



As will be seen from the report of the hydrographical department (see 

 below page V), at the suggestion of the President, Professor Pettersson, some 

 elaborate work has been carried out at the Bureau as to the compilation of 

 Atlantic hydrographical surface observations for every month of the year from 

 1900 to 1914. 



All departments of the Central Bureau have been working with material 

 to hand before the war, with administrative matters, etc. The usual Bulletins 

 and several special reports have been pubhshed, viz. besides the Hydrographical, 

 Biological and Plankton Bulletins: Johansen's report on the eggs and larval 

 stages and the later stages of Pleuronectid fishes of the Baltic, Redeke's report 



