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walque, of Belgium ; Prof, de Lapparent, of France ; Prof. J. 

 Szabo, of Hungary ; Profs. Delgado, Choffat, Bensaude, Goncalves, 

 and de Lima, of Portugal ; Prof. Stefanescu, of Roumania ; Prof. 

 Mayer-Eymar, of Switzerland ; Profs. Capellini and de Zigno, of 

 Italy; Prof. Nikitin, of Russia; Prof. Stur, of Austria; Prof. 

 Vilanova, of Spain ; Prof. Johnstrup, of Denmark ; Prof. Kjerulf, 

 of Norway; Prof, van Calker, of Holland; and Prof. Torrell, of 

 Sweden. 



The committee on the unification of the nomenclature of rocks 

 comprises Knop, Zirkel, and Rosenbusch, of Germany ; Golliez, 

 Hutenmal, and Schmidt, of 

 Switzerland ; Renard and de 

 la Vallde Poussin, of Bel- 

 gium ; Behrens and Wich- 

 mann, of Holland ; Macpher- 

 son and Gonzalo y Farin, of 

 Spain ; Bensaude, of Portu- 

 gal ; Michel-Levy, Barrois, 

 and La Croix, of France ; 

 Teall, Geikie, and Judd, of 

 England ; Brogger, of Nor- 

 way ; Zujovis, of Roumania ; 

 Lowinson-Lessing, of Rus- 

 sia ; Tietze and Tschermak, 

 of Austria-Hungary; J. P. 

 Id dings, Whitman Cross, and 

 C. R. Van Hise, of the Unit- 

 ed States; and Barcena, of 

 Mexico. 



A committee will report 

 on an exhaustive study of 

 the changes which occur in 

 glaciers, for which Prince 

 Roland Bonaparte is chair- 

 man and pays the cost. It is composed as follows : Richter, of 

 Austria ; Fintswalder, of Germany ; Reid, of the United States ; 

 Bonaparte, of France ; Hall, of England ; and Forel, of Switzer- 

 land. 



The original American committee of the International Con- 

 gresses has been somewhat decimated by death. It comprised 

 Prof. James Hall, chairman, Albany; Dr. Persifor Frazer, sec- 

 retary, Philadelphia ; the late Dr. J. S. Newberry, New York ; the 

 late Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, Montreal ; Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, Han- 

 over, N. H. ; Prof. Raphael Pumpelly, Newport ; Prof. H. S. Wil- 

 liams, Yale ; Prof. J. P. Lesley, Philadelphia ; Major J. W. 

 Powell, Washington ; the late Prof. G. H. Cook, Brunswick, N. J. ; 



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PROF. EUGENE A. SMITH, University of Alabama, 

 State Geologist. 



