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THE publications mentioned below are the first reports of the International Council for the Study of the Sea which was constituted by the meeting of representatives of the maritime Powers of northern Europe at Christiania in 1901, and now has its seat at Copenhagen. The bulletins deal with what has come to be known as hydrographic work carried out on the quarterly cruises, in which special ships of each of the participating States take part. The word hydrography is not, however, used in the sense made familiar by the hydrographic offices of the various Admiralties; it means, if we may borrow for a moment the terminology of chemistry, scarcely more than inorganic oceanography. We say scarcely more, for in these bulletins it does include the study of the distribution of plankton, but for this purpose plankton are treated rather as current-floats than as organisms.
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The International Study of the Sea 1 . Nature 68, 417–418 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068417a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/068417a0