

MEMOIRS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, 



Report on the Geological Congress of Paris, 

 1900, by W.T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., F.GS., 

 late Superintendent \ Geological Survey of India. 



Under instructions received from the Secretary of State for India, 

 and by the request of the Director of the Geological Survey of India* 

 I have attended the International Geological Congress recently held 

 in Paris* I will endeavour, as briefly as possible, to show what has 

 been the work of this Congress, and to compare the proceedings with 

 those of the earlier Congresses (Bologna 1881, Berlin 1885, and Lon» 

 don 1888) in which I took part* 



In accordance with the original plan, as announced in January 

 1899, the Eighth Geological Congress, held in Paris, under the presi- 

 dency of Professor Albert Gaudry, the distinguished palaeontologist, 

 commenced on the 1 6th of August 1900. Meetings were also held on 

 the 17th, 1 8th, 2 1st, 23rd, 25th, and 27th August ; the last, which 

 was a formal meeting to close the business of the Congress, I did not 

 attend, but I was present at most of the others. The object of pro- 

 longing to 12 days the duration of the Congress, which, on previous 

 occasions, has been limited to a week, was to afford opportunities to 

 the members, on the intervening days, when no meetings took place, 



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