INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF GEOLOGISTS, PARIS, 1878. 41 
The second part of the book treats of the collections according 
to their geographical distribution. This division was prepared by 
M. Velain, of the Sorbonne, one of the secretaries to the Committee 
of Organization. The third division of the book, devoted to the 
mineral collections and to mineralogical apparatus, is the work of 
M. Jannettaz, of the Sorbonne, who was General Secretary to the 
Congress. 
present at the approaching Exhibition in September next, 
a similar guide to the geological and mineralogical collections at 
the Exhibition and in Sydney might be prepared with great 
advantage to those who possess scientific tastes, and also to the 
public at large. I hardly like to propose that a. Geological 
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Although we are not likely to have a large body of geologists 
I think 
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would be such a small one ; but the Royal Society of New South 
Wales might, perhaps, with advantage join with the other scien- 
tific Societies to hold some special meetings, at which papers could 
be read and discussed, after the model of the British Association. 
is quite insignificant, not so with many other countries : some hav 
h large areas surveyed ; in such, the cost of making a change in 
the printing of the maps would involve an enormous outlay. 
The geological collections and publications sent from Sy dney to 
the Paris Exhibition attracted considerable attention; the copies of 
the “Remarks on the Sedimen: Formations of New South 
in acknowledgment of the liberality of the New South Wohles 
Government, 
oS hr regret that as the papers read and discussed before 
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intended, give you a condensed account of their contents and 
bearing, but I hope to be able to do so later on, when they shall 
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