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least partially solved. It has been quite clearly shown that the orderly 

 systems of blue bands in the body of the dissipator are the modified 

 strata; but it has not yet been shown that the bands which exist 

 close to the bed and at the very end of the glacier belong to the above 

 systems.' 



The following is a summary of the Eleventh Annual Report of 

 the International Committee on Glaciers :^ 



• REPORT ON GLACIERS FOR 1905 

 Swiss Alps. — Of the ninety glaciers under observations in Switzer- 

 land, forty-nine were measured in 1905. The changes in five are 

 uncertain; three glaciers are stationary and the other forty-one are 

 in retreat. No glacier measured in 1905 showed any certain advance.^ 

 Eastern Alps. — Observations were made in the summer of 1905 

 on sixty-one glaciers; forty-nine were in retreat, five were statioQary, 

 and seven had advanced somewhat, so that the general tendency 

 to retreat still dominates. Of the seven advancing glaciers, five are 

 in the mountains of the Oetzthal, where are situated also three of the 

 stationary glaciers. The other two advancing glaciers are in the 

 Goldberg group of the Hohen Tauern. The Grosselendkees, which 

 is stationary, lies in the Ankogel group, the most easterly part of the 

 Alps bearing glaciers. The GHederferner in the Zillerthal Alps, 

 which was advancing last year, is now in retreat. 



1 The following changes have been made in the committee. Professor Francesco 

 Porro, formerly representing Italy on the commission, was elected to represent Argen- 

 tina; Professor Olinto Marinelli succeeded him as representative of Italy; Mr. Charles 

 Rabot, represents France, as the successor to Professor W. Kilian, who has retired; 

 and Dr. E. von Drygalski was elected to report on the Antarctic regions; Professor 

 Bruckner was made ordinary member of the commission to represent Austria, succeed- 

 ing Dr. A. Penck, who has removed to Berlin. Other corresponding members have 

 been added as follows: Professor Dr. Hans Angerer, Mr. Charles Jacob, Mr. A. B. 

 Harper, Major Hon. E. G. Bruce, Mr. W. S. Vaux, Jr., Mr. G. K. Gilbert, General 

 Carlo Porro. Professor Penck and Professor Kilian were elected corresponding 

 members on their withdrawal from the list of ordinary members. The committee lost 

 by death two of its important members, Professor Eduard Richter of Graz, and Profes- 

 sor Israel Russell of Michigan. The following officers were elected to serve until the 

 next meeting of the International Congress of Geologists: Honorary President, Prince 

 Roland Bonaparte, of Paris; Active President, Professor Dr. Eduard Briickner, of 

 Vienna; Secretary, M. Ernest Muret, of Lausanne. 



2 Zeitschrift fiir Gletscherkunde, Vol. I, pp. 161-81. 



3 Report of Professor Forel and M. Muret. 



