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work and deliberations. He continued: " I had the honor in 

 the month of August last, to communicate to his Majesty, King 

 Humbert, the project of holding the third session of the Con- 

 gress in Berlin, and his Majesty specially charged me to convev 

 to the officers and members his kindliest greeting, and the 

 assurance of his sincere interest in the result of its delibera- 

 tions, and desired me to be the interpreter of bis wishes for its 

 complete success. (Hearty applause.) In conclusion I have 

 the honor to announce, that Dr. Beyrich has the floor," Here- 

 upon Dr. Beyrich read from manuscript his address in French. 

 It was an exhaustive history of the development and proceed- 

 ings of the Congress up to the Bologna session, and also of the 

 successive meetings of the committees on the chart of Europe 

 at Foix and at Zurich. He also gave an account of the meet- 

 ing of the German committee at Stuttgart in 1883. The meet- 

 ing of the Congress at Berlin was determined upon for 1884, 

 but was postponed on account of the cholera. The objects of 

 the Congress — the discussion and determination of questions of 

 geological classification, nomenclature and cartography were 

 explained, and a general account of the -results already attained 

 was given. He closed by calling attention to the charts and 

 collections in the Bergakademie which illustrated these results. 

 At the conclusion of the address of Dr. Beyrich, the following 

 list of nominations for officers of the council for the Berlin 

 session was read by Professor Capellini, and the nominations 

 there made were elected by unanimous vote of the Congress, 

 whereupon M. Capellini yielded the chair to Dr. Beyrich. 



Members of the Bureau, 



Honorary President: Dr. von Dechen. 



President : Prof. Beyrich. 



Vice-Presidents : Messrs. Credner, Fraas and von Giimbel, of 

 Germany; Stur, of Austria ; Dewalque, of Belgium; Johnstrup, 

 of Denmark ; Vilanova, of Spain ; James Hall, of the ^United 

 States ; Jacquot, of France ; Hughes, of Great Britain ; t Szabo, 

 of Hungary; Blanford, of India; de Zigno, of Italy; Kjerulf, of 

 Norway; van Calker, of Holland; Choffat, of Portugal; Stefa- 

 nescu, of Roumania; Inostranzeff, of Russia; Torell, of Sweden; 

 Renevier, of Switzerland. 



General Secretary : M. Hauchecorne. 



Secretaries : Messieurs Fontannes, Bornemann pere, Fornasini. 

 Wahnschaffe. 



Treasurer: M. Berendt. ~"' 



Members of the Council: Messrs. Benecke, Dupont, f Bockh, 

 Ewald, Frazer, Gaudry, Geikie, Giordano, von Hantken, de Lap- 

 parent, Lepsius, Mayer-Eymar, von Mojsisovics, Newberry, Pilar, 

 Platz, Striiver, Topley, Williams, Zittel. 



An. Jour. Sci.— Third Series, Vol. XXX, No. 180.— Dec, 1885. 

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