106 copies; 105 letters were sent to President 
Gamble and 70 to the Congress Committee, 
that is to say that | received about the same 
amount of literature from both the President and 
the Congress Organization, either to stir my ac- 
tion up or to answer my questions. That is to 
say also that the co-operation which became 
established between all the Members in the 
Council and more particularly between the Pre- 
sident, the Congress Director and the Secretary 
General was active, effective and over all, ex- 
tremely amicable. The postage fees, as paid by 
ISP, reached 6 300 FF, that is to say 3 300 Swiss 
francs, our ISP money unit, in spite of the help 
of IGN in that field. Moreover, IGN supported 
all the expenses for typing. | take the opportunity 
to thank it and also to thank Prof. van der Weele 
for having mentioned it in the Treasurer’s Re- 
port. Let me add that the stationery was ordered 
in France and the invoices sent to the Nether- 
lands, to be directly paid by Prof. van der Weele 
and to avoid a French tax of 20% or more. 
Every year, | circulated to some 100 correspon- 
dents the updated lists of the names and ad- 
dresses of National Member Bodies and those of 
all the ISP officers and national correspondents. 
| thank those of the addressees who indicated 
mistakes, suggested alterations or brought 
some more useful information. A form for ac- 
knowledging the receipt of those circulars was 
enclosed, in order to help me to update the lists. 
| regret that it has not been used as much as 
it would have been good. 
Your Secretary General drafted the agendas (20 
to 25 items for each of them) of the 4 statutory 
Council meetings, from the President’s instruc- 
tions and the Council Members’ advices. Adopt- 
ing one language for its sessions, English, 
spoken and understood by its six members, the 
Council saved a lot of time and so was able to 
give the discussions a heavy density. | feel that 
it is necessary that the six members in future 
Councils have a good knowledge of a common 
language for work. That goal, which can be reach- 
ed when only six persons are concerned, does 
not seem possible to be extended to the plenary 
sessions of our congresses and to the official 
technical sessions. It even seems difficult to 
drop any translation summarizing the papers 
delivered during the symposia. 
Allow me to mention as shortly as possible the 
main actions carried on by your Secretary Gen- 
eral, from 1972 to 1976, whatever the results of 
them have been so far: 
— attempts in some 25 countries in order to 
bring their adhesions to ISP, through a specially 
created national society, the better way, or to 
begin with, through a government agency for 
mapping or a scientific institution: Ireland, Greece 
and Indonesia confirmed their adhesions; the 
answers received from the following coun- 
tries let us hope that Columbia, Guatemala, 
Jordan, Madagascar, Surinam, Tanzania and Uru- 
guay will join within a few years; 
— suggestions made to certain Member Bodies, 
in order either to extend their representation 
to all the organizations interested in photogram- 
metry in their country (i.e. : Iran), or to introduce 
in their names or in their statutes their interest 
for remote sensing: such was the case for Spain, 
and the Danes made it spontaneously; 
— support brought to the Treasurer to obtain the 
payment of outstanding contributions, late in 
spite of their very low, probably too low level: un- 
fortunately, that support did not meet a total suc- 
cess and it is a pity that a few Members will not 
be allowed to participate in the General As- 
sembly, due to unpaid contributions; 
— establishment of the 1974 symposia calen- 
dar, those symposia being organized by each of 
the seven Technical Commissions; it was an 
opportunity to recall the triple design of those 
events: 1) preparing the Xllith Congress, 2) con- 
sidering the advancement of work in the groups 
and incite some of them to increase their activity, 
3) dealing with one or possibly two subjects 
more thoroughly than it is possible during Con- 
gress sessions, those subjects being selected 
either because of their newness or of their 
various applications; unfortunately, it has not 
been possible to gather within a short time a 
group of symposia held in America and at another 
time, a group of symposia held in Europe; how- 
ever, an arrangement was found, which enabled 
to cut down the travel expenses for those of 
our colleagues who wished to attend several 
symposia; that activity gave the Council Mem- 
bers the opportunity to discuss the rights and 
charges of Member Bodies which accept to chair 
a Technical Commission; | intend to mention 
figures concerning the expenses born by the 
present Commission IV, chaired by the French 
Society, when the General Assembly will deal 
with point 14 on the agenda; 
— contribution to the action led by President 
Gamble, Chairman Welander and others concer- 
ning the place of remote sensing inside ISP; 
each or so of the actual Technical Commissions 
can and must set up one or more working groups 
in which the Remote Sensing experts would be 
able to participate for the general interest of 
photogrammetry as for the development of their 
own technique; more generally, the formation of 
a number of working groups is to be encour- 
aged, as well for the progress of science as to 
interest a larger and larger number of Member 
Bodies in the ISP activity: it would curtail the 
financial burden of the Member Body in charge 
of the Commission, the expenses supported by 
the Member Bodies chairing a working group be- 
ing easy to bear; that is very important for the 
future of our Society; having been a member of 
the Bachmann working group which wrote the 
bye-law no: 18, on Technical Commissions, | can 
say that the functions which have been indi- 
cated are not at all exhaustive; the Technical Com- 
missions must display imagination to stretch 
the field of their activities; moreover, resorting 
to the action of working groups seems to open 
the best way to a joint action of ISP and its sister- 
organizations, such as the International Associa- 
tion of Geodesy, the International Federation of 
Surveyors or the International Cartographic As- 
sociation; 
— maintainance of liaisons with such internatio- 
nal societies, although President Gamble and 
1st Vice-President Tewinkel participated in that 
action much more than the Secretary General; 
— liaisons with UNESCO, made easy by the 
situation of the Organization’s seat in Paris; 
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