The views of the committee were, in substance, adopted by the Institut, with the omission only of the paragraph allowing bombardment by way of reprisals.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T.E.HOLLAND.
Oxford, April 2 (1904).
The "Hague Conference" and "Hague Convention" to which reference was made in the last of these letters were, of course, those of 1899.
For the action taken by the Institut de Droit International in 1895 and 1896, on the initiative of the present writer, see the _Annuaire de l'Institut_, t.

xiv p.

295, t.xv.pp.

145-151, 309, 317; and his _Studies in International Law_, pp.

106-111.
See also, at p.