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The American Geologist. 
February, 1896 
Notice Concerning the Geological Map of Europe Publish¬ 
ed under THE AUSPICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 
of Geologists. 
At the third session of the International Congress of Geolo¬ 
gists, held in Berlin in 1885, the committee on a geological 
map of Europe made a report in which the following con¬ 
ditions of publication were announced. (Berlin volume, page 
lxii. ) “ The house of Reimer & Co. undertakes the publica¬ 
tion at its own expense on the sole condition that the 
international committee guarantee the sale of 900 copies at 
100 francs per copy, and furnish the sum in advance. 
“The subscription price of 100 francs will be augmented to 
125 francs in the regular book trade. 
“ 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, Ger¬ 
many, Scandinavia, and Russia) agrees to take 100 copies. 
The six small countries (i. e. Belgium, Holland, Denmark, 
Switzerland, Portugal and Roumania) will divide among 
them the remaining 100 copies,” etc., etc. 
In the fourth session of the Congress held in London in 
1888 the following note occurs in the report of the proceed¬ 
ings of the committee on the geological map of Europe. 
(London volume, page 59.) 
“ The American committee requested of the Directory to be 
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 obtain¬ 
ed the names of American subscribers to the “one hundred 
copies at the same price ” (100 francs), within a short time 
cof the granting of this request and promptly notified the pub¬ 
lication committee in Berlin, Messrs. Beyrich and Hauche- 
eorne, of the fact. 
As it appears however the map is being offered for sale in 
the German catalogues at the price mentioned in the Berlin 
Resolution as that accorded to original subscribers. 
Qn this account the undersigned advises the survivors of 
those w’ho so patriotically came forward in 1888 to enable the 
geologists of the United States to enjoy the same privileges as 
