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the Potomac deposits of Maryland, and has been found also in the 

 Atlantosaurus beds of Wyoming, thus offering, with the associated 

 fossils, strong testimony that the American and European localities 

 are in the same general horizon of the Upper Jurassic. 



Havre. — The last day at my disposal before sailing for America, 

 I spent in Havre, in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, where the 

 director, M. Lennier, showed me many vertebrate fossils of interest, 

 from the well-known localities near the city. Here, again, among 

 the fragmentary specimens not yet investigated, I found the bones of 

 another Dinosaur, also one of the Sauropoda, but considerably larger 

 than the Fleuroccelus at Caen. The remains were very similar to 

 those of Morosaurus, and the horizon wa^ in the Kimmeridge, which, 

 is here well defined. 



From Havre, I crossed the Channel to Southampton, and with 

 a parting look at the Wealden cliffs of the Isle of Wight, which have 

 furnished the remains of so many interesting Dinosaurs, I sailed 

 for home. 



in. — Narrative of a Geological Journey through Eussia. 



1. Finland. 



By Geo. F. Harris, F.G.S., M.S.G.F., etc. 



THE meeting of the International Geological Congress at St. 

 Petersburg towards the end of August last year was about as 

 successful in promoting the main objects the Congress has in view 

 as any of its predecessors. There was a marked absence of any- 

 thing like a serious radical programme, and in that sense the 

 meeting may be said to have been progressive. The majority of the 

 papers read were commonplace, the few exceptions being mostly in 

 the domain of petrology. Every geologist who attended the 

 meeting was grateful to the Organizing Committee for getting 

 together such a nice little exhibition of specimens, maps, and models 

 for the occasion. It was full of interest. 



The official Russian geologists did everything in their power to 

 assist their visitors. They caused certain scientific institutions in 

 St. Petersburg to remain open longer than usual, and were never 

 tired of explaining the rich collections stored in the geological and 

 mineralogical museums in the Imperial University, and in kindred 

 museums. During the week of meeting they organized a day's 

 excursion to the Czar's palace at Peterhof, and another to the 

 renowned falls of Imatra — a long distance off, in Finland, but 

 distance counts as nothing in the Russian Empire. Then there 

 were the inevitable receptions, though, fortunately, these were not 

 carried out to the same extent as at the Washington Meeting. 



But it was not of the actual Congress meetings, nor of the papers 

 read or mumbled before them, nor of the wonderfully preserved 

 mammalian remains in the temporary museum, nor of the unvarying 

 courtesy of the Russian officials, that I desire to write in these 

 articles. Neither may I say anything in the Geological Magazine 

 concerning the social aspects of our visit to the other side of Europe 



