Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
Scandinavia has been for a number of years past the centre of interest in hydrographic inquiries. The waters of the Baltic, Skagerack, and Cattegat, have been thoroughly investigated by Swedish men of science; the complicated currents of those seas and their periodic alterations have been determined and explained; and a relation has been found to exist between the movements of herring and mackerel and the periodic changes in the character of the water which bathes the Swedish shores. The brilliant results attained by the Swedish hydrographers have been fully described by Prof. Otto Pettersson in the tenth volume of the Scottish Geographical Magazine (1894), and a critical summary of these results is included in Cunningham's paper on the “Physical and Biological Conditions of the North Sea,” published in this journal last year. (Vol. iv., 1896, p. 233.)
page 56 note * Hydrographic-Biological Studies of the Norwegian Fisheries, by Dr. JohanHjort. (Videnskabsselskdbets Skrifter. I. Math. Naturv. Klasse. 1895. No. 9.) Christiania, 1896.
page 65 note * The salinity and temperature are taken from the hydrographic tables, p. 61, not from the figures given in the plankton tables, p. 48, which are clearly erroneous. The figures given in the latter table appear to have been accidentally transferred from the hydrographic record for station 297, January 26th.