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navigational aids, concerned in the first instance type-testings of radio 
direction finders, the compilation of têsting regulations for radar equip 
ments as well as investigations-into the Loran, Becca-and Consol methods« 
The regulations concerning position lanterns with appertaining conditions 
for admittance as wall as the standard-draft for ship's position lanterns 
for sea-going and inland ships are completed.. 
The public service of the B.H.I» such as the Bavigational Warning. 
Service, the Stormflood Warning Service as well as the Ice Service were 
continued in the usual way. International relations of the Institute could 
further be deepened by sending some of its members to the Seventh Conference 
of the International Hydrographic Bureau to Monaco., to the Eleventh General 
Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics held in 
Toronto, to the Conference-on Long Waves and Storm Surges in Wormley/England, 
and to the Annual Meeting of the International Council for the Exploration of 
the Sea held in Bergen/Iforway as well as to the Three-Eation Meeting in London 
The exchange of nautical and scientific publications at home and abroad has 
increased, too.