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The committee appointed to prepare the map was thus consti- 
tuted: Beyrich and Hauchecorne (formerly the sub-committee of 
direction in Berlin), Germany ; Daubrée, France ; Giordano, Italy; 
e Meeller, Russia; Mojsisovics, Austro-Hungary; Topley, 
Great Britain; Renevier (secretary general), Switzerland. The 
committee of direction had made an arrangement with D. Reimer 
o., of Berlin, according to which this firm agreed to undertake 
the publication of the map at its own risk, provided the committee 
would guarantee them an edition of 900 copies at 100 francs a 
copy, and would advance them sums on account. 
The map is to consist of forty-nine sheets—7 in breadth and 7 
in height. Each of these sheets is 48 by 53° and the whole of 
them together will form a chart 3.36 meters high and 3.71 meters 
broad. Professor Kiepert, of Berlin, is to prepare the topo- 
graphic base, using for the purpose all data at his disposition, 
both published and unpublished. Great Britain, France, Spain, 
Italy, Austro-Hungary, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, each 
takes 100 copies = 800. € remaining 100 copies are to be 
divided between the six smaller States, Belgium, Holland, Den- 
mark, Switzerland, Portugal, and Roumania. The central com- 
mittee is to receive from each national committee the maps of its 
e 
country and to make them harmoniz 
The report ends with the following six resolutions, which the 
committee asked the congress to pass : 
I. M. Karpinski will succeed M. de Moeller (resigned), in representing Russia 
e. 
on the committe 
Il, The Carbonic system (or Permo-carboniferous) shall be represented on the 
map by three distinct shades of gray. 
III. Brown shades will be applied to the “* Devonic.” 
IV. The color to represent the “SiJuric” is left to the discretion of the com- 
mittee, 
V. The eruptive rocks shall be represented by seven tints i ight red 
to dark-brownish red. z 7 oe 
VI. The determination of the other questions mentioned in the report shall be left to 
the discretion of the committee.! 
Proposition I was adopted without dissent. 
purely as a provisional 
ent adopted in order to complete the iid X 
Proposition 111 was agreed to. - 
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0, compri eral matters about which the commit- 
a. How are the terranes to be of which the 
: o! ? c. How ? 
to he represented when even their age is doana, c. s10W are measures 
concerni TRE 
ing the affiliations of which geologists differ (Gault, Rhetien, HEJ: 
