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The committee has divided this guarantee subscription as follows : 

 Each one of the large countries of Europe (to wit : Great Britain, 

 France, Spain, Italy, Austro-Hungary, Germany, Scandinavia and 

 Russia) agrees to take 100 copies. The six small countries (i. e., Bel- 

 gium, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Roumania) will di- 

 vide among them the remaining 100 copies, etc." 



In the Fourth Session of the Congress held in London in 1888, the 

 following note occurs in the report of the proceedings of the committee 

 on the geological map of Europe (London Volume, p. o9). 



"The American committee requested of the Directory to he admitted 

 as a subscriber to the map of Europe on the same terms as the great 

 countries of Europe (' sic ') i. e.. for at least one hundred copies and at 

 the same price." 



Dr. Frazer, the Secretary of the American Committee, obtained the 

 names of American subscribers to the "one hundred copies at the same 

 price" (100 francs), within a short time of the granting of this request, 

 and promptly notified the publication committee in Berlin, Messrs. 

 Beyrich and Hauchecorne, of the fact. 



It appears, however, the map is being offered for sale in the German 

 catalogues at the price mentioned in the Berlin resolution as that ac- 

 corded to original subscribers. 



On this account the undersigned advises the survivors of those who 

 so patriotically came forward in 1888 to enable the geologists of the 

 United States to enjoy same privileges as those of the great countries 

 of Europe, to send through their own agents for the geological map of 

 Europe, since there would no longer be any advantage in obtaining 

 them through a single channel. 



List of subscribers to the geological map of Europe in the order of 

 their subscriptions, with number of copies: 



Williams College, 1 ; Ohio State Univ., Columbus, 1 : Rensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute, 1 ; University of Virginia, 1 ; Am. Inst, of 

 Mining Engineers, 1 ; Amherst College, 1 ; Cornell University Library, 

 1 ; Provincial Museum, Halifax, 1 ; Wesleyan University, Middletown, 

 Conn., 1; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., 1 ; Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, 1 ; Univ. of California, Berkely, Cal., 1 ; Prof. 

 C. H. Hitchcock, for Dartmouth College, 1 ; Prof. J. S. Newberry 

 (dead), 1 ; Indiana University, 1 ; Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 

 1 ; U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C, 3 ; Rutgers College, 

 New Brunswick, N. J., 1 ; Yale University Library, 1 ; American 

 Geographical Society, 1 ; Peter Red path Museum, McGill College, 

 Montreal, 1 : V . S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., 1 ; Prof. G. 



