312 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



menclature, under which will be considered all questions re- 

 lating to classification, as well as the value and significance 

 of mineralogical, lithological and paleontological characters, 

 embracing the most important problems in geology. For 

 these two International Committees one member is named 

 for each country, whose duty it will be to organize therein 

 local committees, and to make known the composition of 

 these as soon as possible, both to the secretary-general of the 

 late Congress and to the Local Committee of the future one. 

 Reports by these several committees are to be sent, before 

 the 1st of January, 1881, to the Italian Local Committee of 

 Organization, who will cause them to be printed and dis- 

 tributed before the meeting; of the Congress. 



The members of the International Committee on Maps are 

 as follows: United States, Lesley ; Canada, Selwyn ; Great 

 Britain, Ramsay ; France, De Chancourtois ; Belgium, Du- 

 pont ; Switzerland, Renevier ; Italy, Giordano ; Spain and 

 Portugal, Ribeiro ; Hungary, Von Hantken ; Russia, Von 

 Moeller ; Scandinavia, Torell. 



The International Committee on Nomenclature and Clas- 

 sification is thus composed : United States, James Hall ; Can- 

 ada, T. Sterry Hunt ; Great Britain, T. McKenna Hughes ; 

 France, Hebert ; Belgium, Dewalque ; Germany, F. Romer ; 

 Switzerland, Alphonse Favre ; Italy, Capellini ; Spain and 

 Portugal, Vilanova ; Hungary, Szabo ; Roumania, Stepha- 

 nesco ; Russia, Inostranzeff; Scandinavia, Lundgren ; Aus- 

 tralia, Liversidge. 



In addition to the above a Local Committee was named in 

 France to discuss for the next Congress the rules to be ob- 



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served, in the nomenclature of species, consisting, for Paleon- 

 tology, of Cotteau, Douville, Gaudry, Pomel, Gosselet, and 

 De Saporta ; and for Mineralogy and Lithology, of Des Cloi- 

 zeaux and Jannetaz. The report of the Committee of the 

 American Association in 1876, on Biological Nomenclature, 

 presented by Cope to the Congress, was referred to the 

 above-named committee. The general language of the pro- 

 ceedings was, of course, French; but communications made 

 in English were interpreted by MM. Barrois and T. Sterry 

 Hunt, and will be duly translated for the published acts 

 of the Congress. 



