292 EDITORIAL 



system in the creation of new terms makes apparent the need of 

 some organization of terms and of the establishment of some 

 general principles of nomenclature. The committee, realizing 

 the magnitude of the undertaking and the shortness of the time 

 of a single session of the congress, nevertheless expresses the 

 hope that enough may be accomplished at the coming session to 

 lead to the satisfactory solution of these problems. Certainly 

 the discussion of the more general and fundamental principles 

 of nomenclature by which a common usage of terms may be 

 brought about is the proper function of an international con- 

 gress of geologists, and it is to be hoped that the proceedings 

 of the coming session may be along these lines. J. P. I. 



