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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Prof, J. J. Stevenson, New York ; the late Prof. E. D. Cope, Phila- 

 delphia ; Prof. Eugene A. Smith, Tuscaloosa, Ala. ; Prof. N. H. 

 Winchell, Minneapolis ; and the late Prof. James D. Dana, New 

 Haven. Most of those above living will be present at St. Pe- 

 tersburg, and are nearly all 

 opposed to the control of 

 the congress by bureaucrats. 

 Through the eflforts of the 

 former personnel of the Unit- 

 ed States Geological Survey, 

 the American committee was 

 abolished at the Indianapolis 

 meeting of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, where the 

 survey staff got temporary 

 control. At the last meeting 

 of the Association, at Buffalo, 

 the following delegates were 

 appointed to St. Petersburg : 

 Prof. James Hall, Albany ; 

 the late Prof. E. D. Cope, 

 Philadelphia ; Prof. B. K. Em- 

 erson, Amherst; Prof. C. D. 

 Walcott, Washington ; and 

 Prof. W. N. Rice, Middle- 

 town. These delegates will 

 soon be made a new Ameri- 

 can committee, and their number materially increased in the near 

 future. The delegates of the Geological Society of America will 

 comprise Prof. J. J. Stevenson, New York University ; Prof. 

 B. K. Emerson, Amherst College ; and Prof. I. C. White, Morgan- 

 town, W. Va, 



All objects for exhibition bearing the address " Russia, St. 

 Petersburg Exposition of the International Geological Congress,"' 

 can go through without having to be submitted to customs in- 

 spection at the frontier. Russian consuls everywhere have been 

 instructed to vise passports of geologists presenting membership 

 cards, which will also facilitate matters at the frontier. Mem- 

 bers will receive a ticket of first-class transportation on all Rus- 

 sian and Finland railways. The sessions of the congress will be 

 held at the Imperial Academy of Sciences. 



Accompanying this article is a copy of the official map of the 

 excursions offered to geologists by the Russian Government, 

 which has made great sacrifices to entertain its guests. Over six 

 hundred membership cards have been issued, in consequence of 



Pkof. II. S. Williams, Yale College. 



