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have the -stimulus of co-operation with other nations 

 in its work. The Congress will hold its triennial 

 gathering next year in Paris, and if such an organisation 

 of research as I have suggested could then be inaugu- 

 rated a great impetus would thereby be given to geo- 

 logical research, and France, again become the birth- 

 place of another scientific movement, would acquire 

 a fresh claim to the admiration and gratitude of 

 geologists in every part of the globe. 1 



1 The hope here expressed has so far been realised by the appoint- 

 ment of a Committee of the Geological Congress at Paris in 1900 

 and the renewal and extension of this Committee at the following 

 Meeting held in Vienna in 1903. The subjects of Earthquakes, 

 Movements of elevation or depression in mountain chains and 

 measurements of the value of Gravity were especially proposed for 

 investigation. The recommendations of the Committee were 

 approved by the International Association of Academies in London 

 in the summer of 1904 and steps were then taken in the direction 

 of international co-operation in each of the subjects suggested. 

 Note added, October, 1904. 



