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auspices of the Congress and under the editorial direction of a 

 committee, consisting of Messrs. Gaudry, ISTeumayr, Zittel 

 and Etheridge, with power to add to their number. (Carried.) 



M. Vilanova then mounted the tribune and asked assist- 

 ance for his polyglot dictionary of geology, a Spanish -French 

 specimen of which he exhibited. 



The committee on the formation of an international geological 

 society, and of an international geological journal reported, 

 and a letter was read from M. Gregorio of the committee fa- 

 voring the plan ; whereupon the president pro tem., M. Capel- 

 lini, stated that upon consideration of the report and the facts, 

 the council had decided against the advisibility of both plans. 



Baron Levi asked an explanation. M. Capellini stated that 

 no reports could be made to the Congress, unless previously 

 recommended by the council, and explained that it was not 

 intended to slight the proposition of his countryman, whose 

 acts and motives were warmly approved and appreciated, but 

 simply to adjourn the question till the meeting of the next 

 Congress. Upon this a vote was taken upon the action recom- 

 mended by the council, viz: favoring the scheme of an inter- 

 national geological journal, provided it were supported by joint 

 private enterprise, which was approved. The president pro 

 tem. then announced that the second part of the programme 

 would be proceeded with and gave the floor to M. Nikitin, who 

 explained the work he had done on the portion of work in Rus- 

 sia committed to his care, viz : Central and South East Russia, 

 including the basin of the Volga. 



On the conclusion of M. Nikitin's remarks, M. Yasseur took 

 the floor and exhibited thirteen sheets of the geological map 

 of France, prepared according to the principles adopted at 

 Bologna. M. Hauchecorne, the general secretary, stated that 

 it was a pity that the legend of the Russian maps should be 

 printed in characters which people of other nationalities could 

 not "understand, and he asked that a copy of each map should 

 be furnished with the names in French characters. M. Nik- 

 itin replied that every sheet that he had exhibited contained 

 the names of all the important places and all the rivers and 

 streams in French characters, and demonstrated that this was 

 the case. 



M. Posepny read a treatise on the fluid condition of the inte- 

 rior of the earth. M. Ochsenius presented his views on the ori- 

 gin of .salt deposits and gave diagrams and explanations, claim- 

 ing analogies between certain chemical and physical conditions 

 in the Caspian and the German oceans and the results of ex- 

 plorations to be seen in the mines at Stassfurt and elsewhere. 



M. Capellini (president pro tem.) then announced that the 

 hour had come to draw the session to a close. 



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