188 Reports and Proceedings — The Geological Congress. 



At the last meeting international commissions were appointed 

 to consider certain propositions, and to report upon them at the 

 meeting to be held at Bologna in 1881. Two of them are matters of 

 the utmost importance to geologists, and if they be well and honestly 

 worked out, the results should prove of the greatest use and benefit 

 to Science. 



1. An International Committee for the Unification of Geological 

 Signs, composed as follows : — 



For England Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, Cambridge. 



„ Australasia Prof. Liversidge, University of Sydney. 



„ Belgium M. Dupont, Dir. of Nat. Hist. Mus., Brussels. 



' „ Canada Mr. Selwyn, F.R.S., Dir. Geol. Survey, Canada. 



„ Spain and Portugal M. Ribeiro, Dir. of the Geol. Survey of Portugal. 



„ United States ... Mr. Lesley, Dir. Geol. Survey of Pennsylvania. 



„ France M. De Chancourtois, Ecole des Mines, Paris. 



„ Hungary M. De Hantken, Dir. Geol. Inst. Hungary. 



,, Italy M. Giordan a, Borne. 



„ Russia M. De Moelier, University of St. Petersburg. 



„ Scandinavia M. Otto Torell, Dir. Geol. Survey of Sweden. 



,, Switzerland Prof. Renevier, Lausanne. 



2. The Committee for the Unification of Geological Nomenclature 

 is as follows : — 



For England Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, Cambridge. 



,, Australasia Prof. Liversidge, Sydney. 



„ Canada Dr. Sterry Hunt, Boston, U.S. 



„ Spain and Portugal Prof. Villanova, Madrid. 



„ United States ... Prof. J. Hall, New Jersey. 



„ France M. Hebert, Paris. 



„ Hungary Prof. Szabo, Buda Pestb. 



,, Italy Prof. Capellini, Bologna. 



,, Roumania Prof. Stephanesco, Bucharest. 



„ Russia Prof. Inostranzoff, St. Petersburg. 



„ Scandinavia Prof. Lundgren, Lund. 



„ Switzerland Prof. A. Favre, Geneva. 



The members of these international commissions are charged with 

 the formation of local committees in their respective countries ; each 

 committee is to have the power to choose its own president and 

 secretaries. 



The reports of the committees are to be forwai'ded to the central 

 committee at Bologna by January 1st, 1881, which is charged with 

 the duty of printing and distributing the same before the opening of 

 the Congress in the October of that year. 



The French Government has undertaken to print the Proceedings 

 and Papers of the first session of the Geological and other Congresses 

 (some 30 in number) held during the Paris Exhibition. 



The Geological Society of France threw open its rooms to the 

 Members of the Congress, not only during the actual week of the 

 meeting, but for some time both before and after. Arrangements 

 were made also for several very interesting geological excursions, 

 which were well attended, and went off very pleasantly and suc- 

 cessfully. 



A very notable and useful feature in the arrangements for the 

 Congress was the publication and gratuitous distribution of a very 

 full and valuable " Guide " to the Geological and Mineralogical Col- 



