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(•(infusion of different papers, by different authors, on different subjects. 
It is he, not I, who hypothecates that " a large river ran out of lake 
Iroquois to the southwest," up an elevation of several hundred feet; 
hence his remarks are not germane to my memoirs — "The Iroquois 
Beach ; a Chapter in the Geological History of Lake Ontario." Trans. 
Roy. Soc. Can. 1889 ; or the paper on " The Deformation of the Iroquois 
Beach and Birth of Lake Ontaiio." Am. .lour. Sc. Vol. xl. Dec 1890. 
.1. W. SPENCER. 
The Organizing Committee Int. Cong. Geoe. I notice I have made 
unintentionally a grave error in the report I sent you for the American 
Geologist, from copying the list of members of the committee from the 
original list instead of as afterwards added to. Please add the names of 
T. Sterry Hunt, Persifor Frazer and E. D. Cope, and if the article has 
already gone to press, have this letter inserted as soon as possible with 
my sincere apology for this error, which I have just noticed in my copy 
of the article sent you. Cordially yours. 
H. S. Williams, 
Sec. of the Organizing Committee, Int. Cong. Geol. 
Ithaca, Nov. 27, 1890. 
The Vote of the Bureau Int. Com., of Geol. Changing the Ses- 
sion from Philadelphia to Washington. An official communication 
from Prof. H. S. Williams, Secretary of the Committee on Organization 
of the International Congress of Geologists in the last number of this 
journal calls for a few words of comment. 
It will strike those who know the facts strangely, that in what pur- 
ports to be an authentic list of the members of the committee the names 
are omitted of just the only three members who have persistently op- 
posed the absorption of the Congress by the U. S. Geological Survey. 
and the change of its place of meeting; viz: Drs. Hunt. Cope, and 
Frazer. This omission, however, was accidental and has been satisfac- 
torily apologized for by the Secretary, both by a correction to appear 
in this number, and by a personal letter to myself. The following par- 
agraphs, however, remain open to explanation, viz: 
"Thirty-six ballots were received ; of these thirty-three were in favor 
of Washington. 
"These represent the members from Great Britain, France. Germany, 
Australia, Austria. Belgium. Hungary. India. Italy, Portugal, Rou- 
mania, Russia, and the United States. No negative votes were received 
from countries outside of America. 
••The majority of the Bureau as well as a majority of the American 
Committee, thus oppressing their preference for Washington, ii was 
voted to hold the next sessi f the International Congress of Geolo- 
gists in Washington," etc., etc. 
of the English members of the Bureau, Dr. C. LeNeve Poster wrote to 
the undersigned (June 15. isoo): "We in Europe must do whatever you 
decide in America." Dr. Barrols of France wrote (June 28, 1890): " It 
