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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



PROF. WILLIAM N. RICE, Wesleyun University. 



tervening work of these 

 committees has been adopt- 

 ed, clause by clause. When- 

 ever unsettled questions 

 were announced they were 

 either adjourned to subse- 

 quent sessions, or discretion 

 was granted to the commit- 

 tees to mature their own 

 plans. The committees have 

 been remarkably successful, 

 and no attempt has been 

 made by them to force their 

 conclusions on the con- 

 gresses or introduce into 

 the discussions the narrow 

 partisanship of particular 

 schools. Among the men 

 who have been active in the 

 unification of coloration are 

 Profs. Zittel and Hauche- 

 corne, of Germany; Prof. 

 Thomas McKenny Hughes, 

 of England ; Prof. Del- 



intention of returning the 

 congress to the right path, 

 in conformity with the ob- 

 ject of its institution, hav- 

 ing recognized that it has 

 been entirely deflected from 

 its path in Switzerland." 

 While the committee's "in- 

 tentions" may be good, it 

 will require something more 

 powerful to break down offi- 

 cialism and restore the chair 

 of a university to its equal- 

 ity with a membership of a 

 government bureau. 



Two international com- 

 mittees have been at work 

 for some years to secure a 

 uniform nomenclature and 

 coloration in European geo- 

 logical science. At each ses- 

 sion of the congress the in- 



PROF. N. H. WINCHELL, University of Minnesota, 

 State Geologist. 



