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General Brown agreed with Dr. Harry that the regulations for publication 
etc. should be incorporated into the by-laws but did not think that they could 
be produced early enough for the commissions to be able to wait for them. 
A »semi-final draft» ought to be available one year before the next congress, 
but that would be too late for the work of the commissions during the period 
between the congresses. The present discussion should therefore be devoted to 
details of proposals for control, by the commissions, of publication and dis 
cussion of papers. 
Captain Reading agreed, referring to his outline, in the motion, of the colla 
boration between the commission concerned, the editorial board of Photo- 
grammetria and the Council or Administration. 
Professor Schermerhorn considered that the editorial board of Photogram- 
metria for this special number would not have any say in the selection of 
contributions, but would only be the »slave» of the Commission Boards and 
the Council. 
The delegate meeting decided that the result of the discussion would take 
the form of a recommendation addressed to the statutes committee and also to 
the new Administration. 
Item 3. General outline for the next congress. 
After a recess in the meeting General Brown gave a summary, which was also 
distributed in writing, of the speech he had held the previous day in the presence 
of the Council and Commission Boards (see appendix to closing meeting of 
General Assembly). This constituted a statement of the programme proposed 
by the new Administration with regard to the essential questions which had to 
some extent been discussed under the previous item. The meeting entirely 
agreed with the principles proposed. 
Item 4. Distribution of the technical commissions. 
The Secretary-General reported that the member societies had been requested 
to state for informatory purposes which commissions they might wish to take 
charge of, and gave an account of the relatively few replies received. 
After a lively discussion in which one of the subjects brought up was the 
possible need of sub-commissions to cover geographically widely separated 
groups — primarlv those on either side of the Atlantic — it was found that 
the following countries were willing to accept commissions: 
Commission I: France, and USA (third choice) 
II: Belgium, Switzerland, USA and Germany 
III: Canada, Italy and USA 
IV: Canada, Germany, Switzerland, USA 
V: Germany and Italy (third choice in both cases) 
VI: Austria 
VII: USA (fifth choice). 
After further discussion the delegate meeting decided to propose the following 
distribution of commissions, which implied status quo for Commissions I, VI, 
and VII: 
Commission I: France 
II: Belgium 
III: Italy 
IV: Switzerland 
V: Germany 
VI: Austria 
VII: USA.