== Presidents ==*Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot (Netherlands), 1873 - 1879*Heinrich von Wild (Russia), 1879 - 1896*Éleuthère Mascart (France), 1896 - 1907*William Napier Shaw (U.K.), 1907 - 1923*Ewoud van Everdingen (Netherlands), 1923 - 1935*Theodor Hesselberg (Norway), 1935 - 1946*Sir Nelson King Johnson (U.K.), 1946 - 1951== Sources ==*WikiSource Link: First International Maritime Conference Held for Devising an Uniform System of Meteorological Observations at Sea.