ISP was given the quality of Member B in 1974; 
that category foresees the establishment of 
mutual relations of information and consultation 
between UNESCO and the B Member, namely 
the latter’s contribution to the Organization’s 
programs; the Director for Earth Sciences par- 
ticipated in the ISP Council held in Paris in 1974 
and was invited to attend the Commission IV 
symposium; unfortunately, no financial assist- 
ance could be obtained from UNESCO, in spite 
of our efforts, as well, for instance to help our 
Polish colleagues to organize their 1975 sym- 
posium in Cracow or to help the International 
Council for Architectural Photogrammetry (a joint 
organization of ISP and ICOMOS, the Interna- 
tional Committee of Monuments and Sites); how- 
ever, such actions as training photogrammetrists 
and remote sensing workers in developing coun: 
tries as well as maintaining the protection of the 
architectural common inheritance of Humanity 
should retain the attention of UNESCO; when | 
started ISP relations with UNESCO, | was told 
that the establishment of programs needed 
a very long time and that several years will elapse 
before ISP could get the least financial aid. 
Please, my dear colleagues, excuse that lengthy 
statement, although it was not exhaustive. Thank 
you for your kind attention. 
Aside from his report the Secretary General ob- 
served that costs incurred by Commissions 
should be treated at the following General As- 
sembly, on July 15, 1976. 
Item 4. Congress Director's Report 
The Congress Director presented a synopsis of 
his report distributed to the Delegates, given here 
below. 
Dr. h.c. K. G. Lófstróm: 
My report on the arrangements for this Congress 
will be relatively long, despite the fact that much 
information on the program and comprehen- 
siveness of the Congress, on various preparatory 
activities, and on administrative bodies and per- 
sons having contributed to the various working 
stages has been given in publications distributed 
before the Congress. 
Namely, it seems appropriate to discuss here 
such matters, undertakings and data as might 
be needed for discussions at the General 
Assemblies. 
1. Automatic Data Processing Service 
Data concerning Congress participants, advance 
distribution of publications, hotel reservations, 
participation in the different events, etc., have 
been registered for automatic data processing. 
Computer programs have been designed to pro- 
duce the necessary lists and synopses. The list 
of congressists registered by July 5, 1976, has 
been distributed in the registration envelope. 
A separate complementary list will be distribut- 
46 
ed later on. At the end of the Congress a com- 
plete list of participants with their addresses 
will be drafted. 
2. Number of Participants and Times of 
Registration 
By July 13, about 1 100 Active Members and 350 
Accompanying Persons had registered to the 
Congress. In addition to this, 90 persons be- 
longing to the staff of the Commercial Exhibi- 
tion had been registered. 
It is quite interesting to observe tne effect of 
the gradation of the registration fees on the 
timing of registrations. At earlier congresses the 
majority of the participants have registered 
during the last two months before the congress. 
This time, with the reduceed fee for advance 
registration, 470 Active Members (43%) register- 
ed before March 1, 1976; 140 persons registered 
by May 1, 1976, during the period of normal re- 
gistration; and by July 5 328 persons paid the rais- 
ed fee for late registrations. This result facilitated 
in an essential way the arrangements for the 
necessary hotel reservations. Namely, hotels 
now demand a certain guarantee for room re- 
servations made two months in advance, i.e., 
the price of one night, should the room be left 
vacant. 
3. Advance Distribution of Publications 
Another novelty experimented at this Congress 
has been the advance distribution of publica- 
tions, i.e., offering this service to both authors 
and readers. The result of the experiment did not 
quite meet with our expectations. The number of 
readers interested was 270, when 300 were ex- 
pected, but only 70, i.e., 2096 of all publications 
arrived by May 25, 1976, the deadline having been 
May 15. At the same time it was possible, how- 
ever, to distribute to the readers almost complete 
sets of abstracts. 
It can thus be assumed that arranging the ad- 
vance distribution of publications has been of 
some use already this first time. 
4. Abstracts and Publications 
By the deadline, February 1, only 50% of the 
abstracts had reached the Secretariat. Neverthe- 
less, it was possible to insert in their appropri- 
ate places in the Abstract Book all abstracts 
having been received by April 1, 1976. 
In all, 319 abstracts were handed in: 99% in Eng- 
lish, 83% in German, and 88% in French. The 
emphatic appeal of the Secretary General to send 
all abstracts in the three official languages thus 
proved to be relatively fruitful. 
The Secretariat had the abstracts typed in uniform 
form exactly as they had been sent and had them 
duplicated for the advance distribution. Separ- 
ately from this, 1600 copies of the abstracts 
were printed and bound into a trilingual book of 
abstracts. This Abstract Book, together with the 
complete publications, has been distributed to 
all participants. By July 4 the Secretariat had re- 
ceived 75% of the Reports and Invited and 
Presented Papers represented by the abstracts. 
Of these announced publications, 44 never ar- 
rived. Some publications had arrived without any 
abstracts.