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much in consequence of the inadequate number of hotels as 
because of the necessity of having recourse to private houses 
for lodgings, or having to offer nothing but the cars for pass- 
ing the night. This applies especially to the Urals where 
there will be great distances to be traversed in carriages in a 
region little populated and where the mining establishments 
have but few carriages to put at the disposition of excursion- 
ists. The participants in the excursion to the Ural will do well 
to take with them a pillow, a wrap (plaid), warm clothing, 
good boots, and an impermeable overcoat. 
Actually the number of geologists desirous of taking part in 
these excursions considerably exceeds the number to which we 
must limit ourselves. The committee of organization finds 
itself in consequence, very much to its regret, in the sad 
necessity of not being able to admit all the requests, and (in 
the impossibility of satisfying every body) of giving preference 
to the persons who were the first to present themselves in an- 
swering the first circular of last year as well as the second. 
The persons to whom participation in these excursions must 
be refused are notified of the fact by a special letter. 
In order to avoid that geologists who have inscribed them- 
selves conditionally for this or that excursion and who wish to 
abandon it, should deprive their fellow geologists of the pos- 
sibility of taking part, the committee of organization begs them 
to notify it definitely whether or not they maintain their wish 
to participate in the excursions to be made before the Congress 
(to the Ural or to Esthonia). 
From the 15 (27th) to the 18th (30th) of July delegates of 
the committee will be stationed at the Stations in Moscow of 
the Moscow-Brest, and Nicholas railways, to direct geologists 
coming from foreign countries to the place of meeting of the 
excursionists going to the Ural. 
In sending the ticket giving the right to transportation in 
the first class on the Russian railways, the committee of organ- 
ization permits itself to remind the geologists that the gratui- 
tous tickets for the Russian railways will be good from the 
10th (22d) of July to the 5th (17th) of October. 
