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the  library,  488  have  a  bearing  on  Oceanography  and  Geophysios,  201  deal
with  nautical  affairs  and  navigation,  155  concern  nautical  engineering,
112  geomagnetism,  and  93  sea  survey  and  geodesy.  Special  attention  is  paid
to  a  check  on  the  exchange-partners  (at  present  360  foreign  ones)  with  the
aim  to  discontinue  non-paying  exchange  relations  and  to  extend  or  complete
existing  exchange  relations.  This  is  done  to  replenish  the  necessary
nautical  and  scientific  literature  for  the  G.H.I.'s  fields  of  work.  In  the
archives  the  listing  of  the  stock  is  progressing  rapidly.  The  change  from'
shelf-lists  to  index-cards  had  proved  and  will  be  concluded  before  long.
The  "Deutsche  Hydrographische  Zeitschrift"  has  issued  in  1959  5  numbers
(Volume  11:  No.6;  Volume  12:  Nos.1-4)  and  1  "Ergänzungsheft";  the  latter
contains  the  preliminary  results  of  the  German  participation  with  the
vessels  "Gauss"  and  "Anton  Bohm"  in'  the  International  Geophysical  Tear
1957/58.  This  "Ergänzungsheft"  was  presented  to  the  International  Oceanographic ­
  Congress  held  at  New  York  in  August  1959-The
  "Ausschuss  des  Seeverkehrsbeirats  für  die  Angelegenheiten  des  Deutschen ­
  Hydrographischen  Instituts”  (Committee  on  the..  Sea  Transport  Advisory
Council  for  the  Affairs  of  the  German  Hydrographic  Institute)  held  its
16th  meeting  on  February  17th,  1959  in  Hamburg  in  the  building  which  houses
the  Federal  Authorities  of  Transport.  In  a  number  of  lectures  the  members
were  informed  about  kind  and  extent  of  the  work  done  within  the  compass  of
the  International  Geophysical  Year  by  the  G.H.I.  in  co-operation  with
committees  of  the  "Nachrichtentechnische  Gesellschaft"  and  of  the  "Ausschuss
für  Funkortung".  The  "Ausschuss  des  Seeverkehrsbeirats"  concerned  itself
also  with  the  further  treatment,  through  the  federal  authorities  of  transport, ­
  of  its  resolutions  submitted  after  its  15th  meeting  to  the  "Seeverkehrsbeirat" ­
  (Sea  Transport  Advisory  Council),  A  proposal  of  the  G.H.I.  to
set  off  by  brighter  colouring  the  circular  radio  beacons  in  charts,  found
the  approval  of  the  "Ausschuss",  whilst  the  request  made  by  a  fishery
society  for  publication  of  a  Becca  chart  covering  the  western  part  of  the
Skagerrak  was  for  the  time  being  postponed.