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this journal in Februaiy, 1891. Eighty bones were obtained 
and the remainder are doubtless still lying in the peat that 
rests upon the glacial gravel and prove by their position their 
postglacial date. The bones are now set up and form one of 
the most valuable treasures of the museum of the Ohio State 
University at Columbus. 
The Megalonyx, being on the above evidence certainly post- 
glacial in North America, it would surprise no one to learn 
that the remains of man should be found in association with 
its bones. But early man in America does not seem to have 
frequented caves as dwellings as freely as did his European 
relations. At least American caves have as yet yielded little 
evidence of value proving human occupation or association 
with cave-dwelling animals either recent or extinct, e. w. c. 
A Tribunal of final appeal should be independent of 
ALL influence. 
It is a somewhat significant fact that with the exception of 
the 1st (Paris), 2d (Bologna), and 4th (London) sessions of 
the International Congress of Geologists, every other has been 
under the influence and auspices of the "official geologists" of 
the ''official geological survey" of the particular countr}' where 
the Congress was held. Yet at Berlai it was plainly declared 
in the Bureau that every respectable bona fide geologist had the 
right to a seat in the Congress: and on the question arising 
what weight a vote of the body would carry when usually over 
half the members were from the country where the Congress 
was held, and for various reasons some of the countries most 
important geologically might not be represented at all or very 
insufficiently (i. e. Germany at a Congress in France and vice 
versa), it was answered that each country should have one 
vote on every question, and the nature of that vote should be 
determined by a caucus of the members from that country. 
The clumsy but ultimately successful attempt of major J. 
W. Powell and others of the U. S. Geological Survey to change 
the place of meeting of the 5th session from Philadelphia, 
(where a unanimous vote of the London Congress had decided 
it should go) to Washington; and the dismal failure of that 
session in number of foreign visitors, management of excur- 
sions, and character of the volume issued, is well known 
