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Tue following is a summary of the Szath Annual Report of 
the International Committee on Glaciers :? 
RECORD OF GLACIERS FOR IQOO. 
Swiss Alps—The retreat of the past few years is becoming 
more marked. There is. but one glacier, the Boveyre (in the 
Valais), which is certainly advancing; since 1892 it has advanced 
113 meters. A smaller number than last year are doubtful, and 
a larger number are certainly retreating. Reports have been 
received from eighty-two glaciers.3 
Eastern Alps.—Vhe Vernagt glacier, in the Oetzthal, continues 
its remarkable advance, and has gained 150 meters since last 
year. It has united with its neighbor, the Guslar glacier, and is 
ploughing up its terminal moraine. The ice is seventy meters 
thick at the point where the glacier ended in 1895; and its veloc- 
ity, at one section, where it has been frequently measured, though 
somewhat less than it was a year or two ago, is still about twelve 
times as great as it was before the beginning of the advance. 
Measures on the Hintereis glacier gave a velocity from the 
middle of July to the middle of September exactly equal to the 
mean for the year, suggesting a constant rate for all seasons of 
the year. Of the other glaciers in the same general region 
some show a slight advance and some a slight retreat. The 
most easterly glaciers, which are in the Ankogl group, present 
a remarkable condition; of three observed, one has retreated 
about three meters in the last two years, and the other two 
have advanced about twenty meters.4 
*The earlier reports appeared in the Jour. GEOL., Vol. III, pp. 278-88; Vol. V, 
pp. 378-83; Vol. VI, pp. 473-76; Vol. VII, pp. 217-25; Vol. VIII, pp. 154-59; and 
Vol. IX, pp. 250-54. 
2Archives des sciences phys. et. nat., Vol. XII, pp. 56-69, 118-131, Geneva, Igo1. 
3 Report of Professor Forel and M. Muret. 
4Report of Professor Finsterwalder. 
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