The Second International Conference for the Exploration of the Sea

Abstract

AFTER the International Conference which met at Stockholm in June 1899 for the consideration ofa scheme for the systematic scientific study of fishery questions, it was pro-posed to meet again to complete the programmes at Christiania in the autumn of 5900. Variouscircumstances made it necessary to postpone the meeting, which eventually took place in thesecond week of May, when representatives of Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Norway, Holland, Russia and Sweden (the order is that adopted in the official comple-rendu—alphabetically in the French language), to the number of twenty-five, assembled in Christiania. The delegates included Dr. Herwig, president of the German Society for Promoting Sea- fisheries; Profs. Kriimmel and Brandt of Kiel, and Profs. Heincke and Henking from Germany; Prof. Gilson of Louvain from Belgium; Captain Drechsel, Dr. Martin Knudsen and Dr. C. G. J. Petersen from Denmark; Dr. Nordqvist from Finland; Sir Cohn Scott Moncrieff, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, Dr. H. R. Mill and Mr. W. Garstang from Great Britain; Prof. Nansen and Dr. Hjort from Norway; Dr. P. P. C. Hoek from Holland; Dr. Knipovich from Russia; and Profs. Pettcrsson and Cleve, Dr. Trybom, Captain Maechel and Messrs. Wijkander and Ekman from Sweden Dr. H. H. Gr ¤n and Mr. K. V. Hammer acted as secretaries, and Profs. G. O. Sars and Mohn were invited to take part in the deliberations of the Conference.