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which the committee has decided to exclude from the excursions 

 all who are not authors of geological publications. It is esti- 

 mated that the restriction will reduce the number of excursion- 

 ists to about two hundred people. The cost of the excursions, 

 reduced to the mere maintenance of individuals, has been fixed 



approximately as follows : To the Urals, four hundred francs ; in 

 Esthonia, one hundred and thirty- five francs; to Finland, fifty 

 francs ; the great excursion after the congress, six hundred and 

 sixty-five francs ; to Ararat, two hundred and seventy francs ; to 

 the glacier Mamisson, one hundred and twenty francs ; to Elbo- 

 rous or Sebastopol, forty francs additional to general excursion. 

 Each of the smaller and special excursions have a price estab- 

 lished, estimated at twenty-one francs per day. The committee 



