International Association for Danube Research the Danube. In a more recent branch of IAD in Austria, the ÖK (Österreichisches Komitee), scientists with outstanding research related to the Danube Basin in Austria are awarded with the “Liepolt-Preis”. The major achievement in the first decade of IAD was the monograph “Limnologie der Donau” (Limnology of the Danube), edited by Liepolt and published by E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele & Obermiller) Stuttgart in 1967. In the same year, the Commission for Hydrology of the Romanian Academy published the monography “Limnology of the Romanian sector of the Danube”. In 1986, S. Godeanu and V. Popescu-Marinescu released the bibliography “Limnologie der
Commissions of the Danube River and the Dardanelles. Of course the acceptance of this proposal would have meant the end of effective control of the Danube, for the Commission, far from the mouths of the Danube and charged with new tasks, would have hardly been able to fulfill its primary tasks, and the actual control of the Lower Danube would have devolved upon Rumania. wrote Joseph D. Somogyi in 1948. In 1924, Romania suggested that the activities of the commission be limited; that country would be charged with trial and punishment of shipping violators, similar to the method used by the newer, upriver International Danube