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FIRST PAN-PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE. 
work by men who are masters in many fields, thus requiring 4 
number of men through a period of years, we therefore recommend 
the establishment of research fellowships for linguistic research, 
such endowments being provided that these fellowships will attract 
the best men available, and provide for uninterrupted work during 
an adequate number of years. i 
In connexion with Biological Science, it was resolved, amongst other 
things— 
1. That the first Pan-Pacifie Scientific Conference recommends 
that the Governments of the several nations bordering on the Pacific 
Ocean co-operate, through their several agencies concerned, in sur- 
veying and charting the sea, toward the collection, compilation, and 
publication of data relating to the topography of the bottom, and 
the temperatures, salinities, acidities, currents, and other physical 
and chemical properties of the waters of this ocean, fundamental to 
biological research, and the improvements and conservation of the 
fisheries. ; 
2. That the Conference recommends that a comprehensive sys- 
tematic biological survey of the Pacific Ocean and its contained 
islands be prepared, with special reference: to the economic fisheries 
problems, and that the investigation be carried on in so far as pos- 
sible through existing agencies, such agencies to be provided with 
the additional apparatus and facilities necessary, the investigation 
to be carried on under such co-operation as will prevent duplication 
of effort. , 
In counexion with Geography, it was resolved that— 
A general hydrographic survey of the Continental shelves extend- - 
ing off-shore to the 1,000-fathom curve, and of the island platforms 
should be executed, in order to supply basic data essential to all 
research work involved in the general scientific exploration of the 
Pacific Ocean; also . sae 
A systematic oceanographic investigation of the Pacific should be 
undertaken as soon as possible. The plan adopted should ‘be 
designed to complete the survey of the most critical areas at an early 
date, and eventually the whole Pacific region. 
‘In connexion with Geology, it was resolved, amongst other things— 
That the following maps of the Pacific region on the international 
seale of 1 :1,000,000 be prepared as expeditiously as possible :— 
(a) A base map, showing by contours or hachures as many topo- 
graphic features as practicable; se at 
(b) A map showing geographical formations or groups of geo- 
logical formations ; 
~ (c) A map showing mineral resources. 
Also— “ 
(a) That the configuration of-the bottom of the Pacific Ocean be 
determined with adequate accuracy; 
(b) That charts of the littoral and sub-littoral zones be made iu 
_all practicable detail, for example, wherever possible these 
charts should be on scales ranging between 1 : 10,000 and 
1 : 40,000. . 
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