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lishers at their own risk. The 

 price of the work was fixed 

 at 125 francs ($25). The vari- 

 ous national committees sub- 

 scribed and paid the publish- 

 ers for nine hundred copies 

 at the rate of 100 francs each. 

 The map represents the com- 

 pletest and most accurate 

 geological information ob- 

 tainable, and every step in its 

 progress has been careful- 

 ly taken, so that the result 

 forms a consensus of Euro- 

 pean opinion. 



At the last congress at 

 Zurich, Switzerland, two 

 propositions were submitted 

 by Dr. Persifor Frazer, and 

 the bureau was ordered to 

 report on them at St. Peters- 

 burg, as follows : 



"1. To what extent does 

 the congress recognize the right of 



PROF. 



THE LATE PROF. E. D. COPE, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



PERSIFOR FRAZER, Philadelphia Academy 

 of Sciences. 



governmental bureaus as such, 

 or of any kind of organiza- 

 tions, to send representatives 

 to the congress ? 



"2. Within what limita- 

 tions does the congress rec- 

 ognize the right of such rep- 

 resentatives, or of only a por- 

 tion of the members of the 

 congress coming from the 

 same country, to choose who 

 shall be the vice-president 

 representing their country, 

 or to take any other steps in 

 the name of their country 

 without consultation of all 

 of their countrymen, mem- 

 bers of the congress ? " 



In these propositions is 

 said to lie the future of in- 

 ternational geological con- 

 gresses. If government offi- 

 cials are alone to represent 



