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gained an immunity or idiosyncrasy to miasmatic influences by 
generations of adaptation. He has made little progress in civ- 
ilization. This is due to the lack of inherent capability of the 
negro type more than any other cause. The lack of harbors on 
the coasts of Africa has always and will in the future militate 
against the settlement and growth by advanced races. It looks 
now as if this continent, vast in wealth and area, is becoming 
overrun by the fierce disciples of Islam, the most undesirable 
settlers possible, and in whose hands it will be lost in an irre- 
claimable darkness. Another great bane to the Congo and all 
Africa is the accursed slave-trade. For over three thousand 
years she has bartered her children to be slaves over the whole 
earth. Livingstone, Schweinfurth, Stanley, and many other dis- 
tinguished explorers have seen, with anguish, this comprehensive 
atrocity in all its phases, and have tried to perfect plans for put- 
ting it down. The Congo Free State, through Henry Stanley, 
has done much to suppress this evil. That recent brilliant 
master-stroke of enlisting Tippo Tib, the prince of slave-traders, 
against the slave-trade cannot receive too much praise, and it is 
to be hoped that, as another laurel in Stanley’s crown, he may 
Successfully rescue Emin Bey, the soldier-scientist, from his 
perilous position in the heart of Africa, and restore him, with 
his large collections, to the civilized world. 
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NOTES ON CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLA- 
TURE FOR THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF 
THE INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CON- 
GRESS, MARCH, 1887. 
BY N. H. WINCHELL. 
HE PaLæozorc.—In the light of recent work done in the 
classic region of American geology, Eastern New York, 
by Messrs. Ford and Walcott, reviving some of the old ques- 
tions that separated the geologists of forty years ago into widely 
_ Variant schools, it becomes appropriate for this committee to 
: _— and justly weigh the facts so far as they bear on the 
of names for recommendation to the next congress. 
It will have to be admitted that the scheme of stratigraphy 
