ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL GEO- 
LOGICAL CONGRESS IN STOCKHOLM, ro10 
J. G. ANDERSSON 
Stockholm 
At the tenth meeting of the International Geological Congress 
in Mexico, 1906, the Swedish geologists invited the congress to 
hold its next session in Stockholm, an invititaon that was unanimously 
accepted. In view of the extensvie preliminary work occasioned 
by the projected excursions, a wish was expressed by the Swedes 
that the meeting in question, which should really have taken place 
in three years’ time, might be postponed until 1910. The decision 
was left to the Swedish geologists, and subsequently 1910 was fixed 
upon by the Swedish organizing convocation for the meeting in 
Stockholm. 
The initiative in inviting the International Geological Congress 
to Sweden was taken by the Geological Society in Stockholm on 
May 4, 1905, when a committee was appointed, which raised the 
sum required for the undertaking by means of state grants, etc., 
and issued the invitation on the occasion of the session in Mexico. 
A general meeting of the Swedish geologists was held in Stock- 
holm on March 5, 1907, for the purpose of drawing up a general 
program for the work of organization. This meeting also in- 
structed the previously established committee to officiate as Execu- 
tive Committee for future arrangements. On the retirement of the 
former director of the Geological Survey of Sweden, Professor A. E. 
Tornebohm, his place, as president of the committee, was taken by 
Professor G. de Geer. The treasurer of the committee is Professor 
H. Backstrém, while Professor J. G. Andersson, the present director 
of the Geological Survey of Sweden, officiates as general secretary. 
The Swedish Executive Committee considers it advisable that 
preference should be given to the discussion of such questions at the 
meeting of the congress in Stockholm, as the actual geological phenom- 
ena of Sweden or of the polar regions can throw light upon. Particu- 
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