The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was signed in 1946. It is one of the better examples of healthy international co-operation. This brief article endeavours to give some indication of the scope of the Convention itself and of the Commission which meets annually. For further information it is most convenient to look first at the articles and notes which appear from time to time in the Polar Record and in Norsk Hvalfangst Tidende. The latter journal in its issue for July, 1952, sets out the Convention and its Schedules in full.