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gradually establish a standard to which authors 

 will conform more and more closely as time 

 goes on, and therefore the amount of editing 

 required will become less and less. 



Finally, mention should be made of the sug- 

 gestion of several readers that larger type be 

 used for the aibstraets than has been the cus- 

 tom. Since more people read the abstracts 

 than read the articles, it would seem obvious 

 that the type of the abstracts should be at least 

 as large as that of the articles. 



It should not be long before all scientific 

 journals, in fulfilment of their duty toward 

 their readers, provide carefully prepared pre- 

 liminary abstracts of their scientific articles. 

 There can no longer be any doubt of the value 

 of such absti-acts. It remains only to over- 

 come the practical obstacles to the introduc- 

 tion of the new policy. 



In conclusion we desire to express our thanks 

 to the 805 readers whose cooperation gave us 

 the information herewith reported. 



goedon s. fulcher 



Corning Glass Works 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



CONSERVATION OF THE RESOURCES OF 

 THE PACIFIC 



The following resolutions were unanimously 

 adopted by the Pan-Pacific Union Commercial 

 Conference, meeting at Honolulu on November 

 7, 1922: 



Whereas, It is kno^yn that many valuable spe- 

 cies of marine mammals sucli as fux seal, sea 

 otters, elephant seals and wihale, and many spe- 

 cies of important food fishes such as salmon and 

 halibut, formerly occurred in the Pacific in such 

 vast numbers as to constitute the objects of fish- 

 eries whose annual products were worth more than 

 one hundred million dollars, and 



Whereas, Nearly all of those great natural re- 

 sources have been seriously depleted, many of 

 them even to commercial extinction, througli greed 

 and short-sightedness and ill-considered fishery 

 methods, and 



Whereas, It is known that small remnants of 

 fur-seal and sea-otter herds and ismall numbers of 

 whales and of other commercially valuable species 

 still remain in certain places, and 



Whereas, The rapid recovery of the Alaska fur- 



seal herd in the short period of ten years from 

 complete commercial ruin, to an annual produc- 

 tion of more than one million five hundred thou- 

 sand dollars, as a result of the international fur- 

 seal treaty of 1911, demonstrates conclusively the 

 wonderful recuperative power of such depleted 

 natural resources of the sea under international 

 cooperation, and justifies the belief that other 

 depleted fisheries can be rehabilitated through 

 similar cooperation- among the nations concerned, 

 and 



Whereas, It is conservatively estimated that 

 these resources when rehabilitated will yield to 

 the world a regular annual product of more than 

 one half billion dollars in value, therefore be it 



Resolved, That the Pan-Pacifie Commercial 

 Conference strongly recommends that the various 

 countries bordering on, or interested in, the Pa- 

 cific, take such steps as may be necessary to bring 

 about an Luternational treaty for the restoration 

 of the vanishing resources of the Pacific to theii' 

 former abundiance, that tliey may be maintained 

 for all time as the objeats of great commercial 

 fisheries of which they are easily capable, and be 

 it further 



Sesolved, That this Commercial Conference rec- 

 ommends that the governments of the countries 

 bordering on the Pacific enter into correspondence 

 for the purpose of establishing an international 

 commission for the scientific study of the biology, 

 physics and chemistry of the Pacific in the inter- 

 est of the restoration, proper utilization and con- 

 servation of its vanishing natural resources. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING AND 

 DR. NELSON 



The trustees of the University of Wyoming 

 have passed the foUowLng resolutions : 



Whereas, Dr. Aven Nelson, after five years as 

 president of the University of Wyoming, resigned 

 at the June meeting of the board of trustees, and 



Whereas, His activities as president ceased 

 October 2, upon the arrival of his successor, Dr. 

 Arthur G. Crane, of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and 



Whereas, Dr. Nelson has served this university 

 in various capacities from the infancy of the 

 institution, in all of which he has succeeded to a 

 high degree, and 



Whereas, His industry, his patience and his 

 scholarship were controlling factors in carrying 

 the University of Wyoming through the world 

 war and the reconstruction period thereafter to its 

 present success. 



