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IN June 1933 the first Iberian-American Oceano-graphical Conference will be held in Madrid. The Council, under the presidency of Prof. D. Odon de Buen of Madrid, was instituted in 1929 in order to facilitate co-operation between the Iberian Peninsula and parts of America, the countries involved being Spain, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Uruguay. The publications of the Council consist of a review (Revista del Consejo Oceanografico Ibero-Americana), which has been in existence for three years and contains many interesting short papers, and the memoirs (Memorias del Consejo Oceanografico Ibero-Americana), eleven numbers of which have been published, each containing one long paper. No. 9, by Prof. Rafael de Buen, deals with all the activities connected with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, which was founded in 1914 to unite in one centre the coastal marine laboratories already in existence, situated in Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, and Santander. All these are now connected with the main oceanographical laboratories in Madrid, where all investigations are centralised, the director being Prof. Odon de Buen. Various expeditions have been undertaken, mainly in the Mediterranean, and in 1924 Spain joined the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, among o,ther things working out certain hydrographical problems round Cape Finisterre and studying the biology of the sardine and other fishes, including the hake, tunny, and bonito.
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Oceanography in Spain. Nature 130, 840 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130840c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130840c0