470 International Geological Congress. 



M. de Lapparent said : I ask the Congress to give the statements 

 made by Professor Newberry and M. Blanford, in regard to the 

 absence of the Permian in various parts of the world, the atten- 

 tion that they deserve. It seems to me that the object of this 

 Congress was to establish a system applicable to all the world 

 and not to Europe alone, or it should not have invited geolo- 

 gists from other countries than the European to participate. 



M. Capellini remarked that these matters were to be settled 

 as broad and grand questions in Science — without paying too 

 much attention to individual matters of detail in which differ- 

 ent countries might differ. 



M. Neumayr thought that just because the questions were 

 grand and broad they should be left to the free and unrestricted 

 discussion of scientific men in the journals and societies of the 

 world, and not be settled by a majority which changes with 

 every country, and after the address of an eloquent orator. 



M. Capellini made some further observations. Professor 

 Hughes said that Professors Newberry and Blanford had stated 

 that there was no Permian in India and America, but that they 

 had simply found fossils having a Permian facies in the Car- 

 boniferous. He concluded by- expressing the belief that it was 

 better to leave the question open. 



M. Hauchecorne: I agree entirely with the views of Professor 

 Hughes as to the scientific aspect of the question, which we 

 propose to leave to the future. But in the map we will arrange 

 the order of the beds provisionally as it is in the proposed chart 

 of colors without uniting the two systems in the legend of the 

 chart by a bracket. 



The Hon. President von Dechen agreed with the views ex- 

 pressed by Mr. Neumayr and desired the map to go on to its 

 completion at the earliest moment. 



M. Dewalque: "I propose the following as expressing the 

 opinion of the Congress on this subject:" 



" The Congress not wishing to pronounce any view on 

 the scientific question of the proper division of the Permian 

 and Carboniferous, preserves the classification as it now is." 

 (Adopted with about fifteen dissenting votes). ". 



4th Session, Oct. 2d, 2:30 p. m. 



The Congress assembled in the Reichstags chamber and M. 

 Capellini occupied the chair as chairman pro tern. 



The report of the Council was read and the nominations pro- 

 posed by it for the committee on the chart of Europe were 

 voted upon and unanimously elected. They were as follows in 

 alphabetical order (in French) by countries: 



Germany, Romer. India, Blanford. 



Austria, ISTeumayr. Italy, Capellini. 



Belgium, Dewalque. Japan, Neumann. 



