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If there is an object for the 

 congress to accomplish, it is 

 to open its doors and honors 

 equally to all geologists. It 

 is thought that if the con- 

 gress decides that only bu- 

 reau employees enjoy ex- 

 clusive privileges and alone 

 constitute the personnel of 

 the permanent organization, 

 which keeps the organiza- 

 tion alive in session and out, 

 then the body has simply be- 

 come a medium of ofhcialism, 

 a governments' trust, and 

 should be disbanded. As a 

 trust, it will simply continue 

 to extenuate errors and pre- 

 serve the power of govern- 

 ment survey directors. The 

 independent geologists think 

 the congress has been per- 

 verted and diverted from its 

 original high purpose, and that 



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Prof. B. K. Emerson, Amherst College. 



Prof. C. 11. Hitchcock, Diutmoutli College. 



the time has come to rescue it. 

 They desire it to be the high- 

 est tribunal of appeal on 

 purely scientific matters. 



The protesting Americans 

 are led by Dr. Persifor Fra- 

 zer, of Philadelphia, who is 

 an able linguist and parlia- 

 mentarian. He will repre- 

 sent the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society, the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences, and the 

 editorial staff of the Ameri- 

 can Geologist. Prof. Giovan- 

 ni Capellini (Italy), who re- 

 cently received the Hayden 

 medal and who will probably 

 be decorated by the Czar at 

 this congress, thinks the bat- 

 tle against officialism already 

 won. In a recent letter he 

 states : " The committee of 

 organization has the good 



