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jected; fo the, influence of seyenal, penmanentt 
magnets by which itis, sate speaks. wiped cleans 
and prepared to, regeive amother:series @f mag, 
HebiciMpPresslONSe iw loose yuol s to yllsiimezes 
[Vie DARBOUN, an! welcoming jthetddlerates: to 
thetInternational Association’ of “Academiés ip 
the récentParis aueeting,: according! ito there: 
port theduondon Tines} attributedthe original 
id&a ofl association: i for: scientifi¢aresearch! to 
Lord Baconyi recalling theseurious conceptionof 
the College of the Six Days? Worksor thesHouse 
of Solomon, which, however, ) was) never sreals 
izdd a To-day suchwasothe range! ofvseiéntific 
activity, no suchischeme could ever bei realized; 
andionly the common agreenientandoreciprocab 
support-of ithe! mations couldosuffidé even +6 
undertake >the solutions of! the problems!which, 
were now imposed im allotheir multiplicity on’ 
the <atténtion of the world? Sich ‘asréement 
had: Been: secured! for: a- certain number of 
special) quéstions,*!such+ asthe! International 
Buréaui of Weights and ‘Measures, theoInter= 
national: Geodetic! Association; the Assodiatiow 
forsthe: Map:of the: Heavens and, a10tably, the’ 
intérmational catalogue of scientific literature; 
duerentirely tonths initiative’ of thes Royal So 
cietya°’ M.! Darboux’ then ‘continued! “Phis! 
international-cooperation» which@ has ‘always 
proved its value an albthe*cases where it Has 
been! found’ indispensable; “will tbe/ assured iv 
a lasting, normal andcuniversall way ‘by! the’ 
formation of our Societys The task that we 
have undertaken may appear difficult; but it has’ 
become, absolutely necessary, and the spirit vex 
tuating@us ought to give ius the ‘assurance: that’ 
weoshall succeed ‘by our! united! efforts in overs 
coming all diffieulties://°In constituting ‘wider 
allyisible and’ permanent? form’ this“universal 
academy; which’ hadobeen' conceived amd opie- 
pared/by Leibnitzjanany of whose other dreams 
moreover, have! been realized orlare being real- 
ized, our Association will render to. ¢ivilization 
and science a ‘service of which itis impossible 
to exaggerate the importance, ‘Thanks tot, the 
man of science devoting ‘his life to’ the most 
delicate or the most abstract’ researches Will 
cease to feel himself isolated, while still %pre+ 
serving that independence which is‘the’sreatest 
good and’ the “primaty ‘needfor thé investi= 
gator.’ By unitin@ im the different academies 
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alkthose two care! sthdying. the ssame sthjects,) 
byogivitigithem, ifsthey wish ait/the oppontunitip 
of joining in astoniihbneworlk, by drawiiy ithe 
SUSIE, the gover ern} penis ho: all dheschemes 
the, Speedy Realizationy of which, ig necessary; 
or desirable, by. ; insisting te, them, also, -the, 
pie Bis executing, jthese i schemes. j in the, dot 
sible saying g,and ‘by. proposing. an ‘preparing, 
through, ‘the. common, _Wnderstanding Of savents, 
in, ‘the domain. 9 of theory t the-ag pect Si Bite 
ples on, Alea basis, of bras 
sociation i is destined, to to aoe 
the most pow erful, instruments. of ee and, 
of progress... /Tti As with this firm, conyigtion that; 
I declare open, the first general assembly of, the, 
itis national, Association, of ‘Lear red. Societies, 
AT a meeting, of the Geological Society, of 
London, ‘on March 6th, “Professor George ‘Fred- 
erick Wight of Onehiae College, ‘presented a 
commiunitation™ ‘entitled, OTR g oe Ke sTo gical 
Changes! in’ Northern and ‘Central “Asia, the 
paper being the outcome of a journey made. by 
the: atithor® in’ “eoimpany” swith! Mr. Fredétick 
Bo Wright in / 1900" 1901. vetey said’ that. in 
North America, an | area , oat about . 4,000, 000, 
square, miles was, brought. under the direc 
influence.» of .g slacial, ice during. the Glacial 
Epoch, The, result .of,,six , weeks, spent, dn 
Japan.wasito.shewithat thereiare no signs of 
general glaciation in Nipponot!¥ ésso; |i Neither: 
is) bherelany sign of glaciation along the border 
of the Mongolian Plateau; where ‘the général 
élévatiou 48 5,000 feet) but the whole Yesiow is 
covered With ‘Toss. "This “has usually: aceumu- 
lated like immense snow- -drifts | on the sou - 
eastern , or Jee side of the | mountains, and. in 
it houses and. Villages, are. excavated, ied 
the mountainous region, strata of gravel and 
pebbles are so frequent in the logs, that it 
is_necessary. to invoke both wind and water 
in order to explain fully the origin of the 
deposit. At the present time the loess, in the 
interior is being washed away by streams much 
faster than, it is, being deposited -by the wind, 
The journey, across Manchuria from | Port 
Arthur along the ‘Lao-Ho and Sungari rivers 
was through valleys choked With alluviam;* and 
thére was no évidence that the: drainage of the 
Aiur had ever been réyersed' by ice, like ‘that 
