The publications of the Review: “Bergwirtschaftliche Zeitfragen” 
(Contemporary problems of Mining Economy), stoppend in 1913, 
will be resumed; it will, in accordance with a connecting scheme, 
contain a number of treatises on specialised questions, themes 
given to students for their examination papers, lectures, account 
of voyages undertaken for the sake of resarch, experts’ reports etc. 
These informations will, in some cases, be translated into foreign 
languages or be accompanied by extracts written in such languages. 
The disconnected scientific work carried on heretofore by the 
various unions and associations for Mining Economics will now be 
put upon a more rational basis, within the Association, by means 
of agreements to the establisher between the various interests in 
accordance with a connecting principle, i, e. research will be both 
simplified and unified, expenses being, at the same time, con- 
siderably reduced. 
Our program also aims at future improvements of the press 
devoted to mining interests, at the collection of complete biblio- 
graphical materials, the procuring of the requisite literature, the 
avoidance of superfluous publications and the encouragement of 
co-operative publications on mining interests in the various 
zountries. 
In the field of scientific research and, chiefly, that of statistics, 
terminology, nomenclature, cartography etc. questions of a similar 
nature have to be solved both within the various countries and 
with respect to their international relations; they are releated to 
the need of simplification and standardisation and they are going 
to be made the object of a special study by our association. 
It is intended to convoke in 1928 an assembly for the purpose 
of Constituting the Association. It will also be called upon to 
examine the question of establishing inventories of the world’s