[The Permanent Bureau, on its part, will do its best to carry out this Resolotion. At the same time it would request the various societies to prepare suggestions on the subject, to be submitted to the next meeting of the Congress.]

Topographical Survey of Africa.

That it is desirable to bring to the notice of the Geographical Societies interested in Africa the advantages to be gained —

(1) By the execution of accurate topographical surveys, based on a sufficiënt triangulation, of the districts in Africa suitable for colonisation by Europeans.

(2) By enconraging travellers to sketch areas rather than mere routes.

(3) By the formation and publication of a list of all the places in unsurveyed Africa, which have been accurately determined by astronomical observations, with explanations of the methods employed.

(4) By the accurate determination of the position of many of the most important places in unserveyed Africa, for which operation the lines of telegraph already erected, or in course of erection, afford so great facilities.

Map of the World; scale 1: 1 000 000.

That the following resolutions drawn up by the Commission appointed at the Fifth Congress relative to the preparation of a map of the World, on the scale of 1 : 1 000 000, be adopted by the Congress: —

(1) The Commission has received the Report of the Berne Committee, and feels grateful for the woik done by it.

(2) The Commission declares the production of a map of the world to be exceedingly desirable.

(8) A scale of 1 :1 000 000 is recommended as being more especially suited for that purpose.

(4) The Commission recommends that each sheet of the map be bounded by arcs of parallels and of meridians. A poly-conical projection is the only one which is deserving of consideration. Each sheet of the map should embrace 4° of latitude and 6° of longitude np to 60° north, and 12° of longitude beyond that parallel.

(5) The Commission recommends unanimously that the meridian of Greenwich and the metre be accepted for this map.

(6) The Commission recommends governments, institutions and societies, who may publish maps, to accept the scale recommended.

(7) The Commission lays down its mandate and recommends that the Permanent Bureau of the Congress be charged with the duty of carrying on its work, and be authorised to co-opt for this purpose scientific men representing various countries.

Hydrographic Research in the Baltic, North Sea, and North Atlantic.

Ihat the Congress recognises the scientific and economie importance of the results of recent physical and chemical research in the Baltic, the North Sea, and the North Atlantic, especially with regard to fishing interests, and records its opinion that the survey of these areas should be continued and extended by the co-operation of the