International Congress of Geologists. — Frazer. 49 
membership of the Congress no unanimity and therefore no 
conclusion was possible, although the discussion was main- 
tained with great temperance and consideration of expression. 
It was finally unanimously agreed to divide the Paleozoic into 
three parts, for which the names were not even suggested at 
this session, it being thought naturally fitting that this matter 
should form an integral part of the discussion at the meeting 
in Philadelphia. As part of this discussion was of course the 
time-honored differences between the adherents of Murchison 
and Sedgwick, the chiefs of the schools of London and Cam- 
bridge, Prof. Lapworth proposed, as a means of accommo- 
dating the differences of these two schools, the terms Cam- 
brian, Ordovician and Silurian, giving to each those measures 
which he first described, entirely removed from the strata of 
his adversary, and giving a distinctive name to that sequence 
of beds which were claimed by both of them. Dr. Hicks, rep- 
resenting himself as a disciple of both schools, proposed to the 
Congress to accept Prof. Lapworth's proposition, and this was 
supported by Prof. Marr, adjunct professor at Cambridge, 
and one of the sub-committee on classification, who regarding 
the question from the paleontological point of view recognized 
the necessity of three names to distinguish the three divisions 
or systems. In honor of the distinguished savant Barrande, 
he proposed that the lower Silurian of Murchison be called 
Barrandian. This proposal evidently did not find favor with 
the assembly. 
Prof. Lapworth proposed the two terms protozoic and deu- 
tozoic to designate the first and second natural divisions of 
the Paleozoic, corresponding with the distinct epochs observed 
everywTiere over the globe which were called lower Paleozoic 
(Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian), and upper Paleozoic 
(Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian). Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, 
who has studied the question carefully, seconded the proposal 
of Prof. Lapworth. Prof. Gosselet, while approving the term 
Ordovician rejected that of protozoic and deutozoic in view of 
the importance which the Devonian system assumes in the 
Ardennes. Prof. Kayser supported the division proposed by 
the American Committee and accepted by Prof. Dewalque, of 
Taconic, Cambrian and Silurian. 
There is one phase of the question which is important, in 
view of the publication of the map of Europe, which will in- 
