410 The American Gcohxjlai. Decumbor, 1897 
M. Frazer submitted the following- ifsolution: 
(1) Those who announce themselves to the secretary within the period 
fixed and who pay their fees thall be admitted to the Congress as aa^iO- 
ciatea. 
(2) The members of the Congress who alone shall have the rights of 
voting on questions proposed, of taking part in the excursions arranged 
for the geologists by the committee of organization, and of serving as 
officers and members of committees of the Congress, shall be delegates 
from well known universities or societies of natural history, or those 
who are personally known to the members of the committee of organi- 
zation by their works. 
After a discussion by Tietze, Stefanescu, Capellini, Bertrand, Pellati, 
Renevier and v. Zittel the motion is put and lost. 
M. Schmidt offers the following: "The council expresses the wish 
that, the number of members of the Congress remaining unlimited, the 
number of participants in the excursions be limited in a manner not to 
hamper the task of the leaders, nor the serious study of the region trav- 
ersed." After discussion by MM. Emmons, Heim, Pellati. Bertrand, M. 
Schmidt's proposition was adopted after elimination of the words "the 
number of members of the Congress remaining unlimited." 
M. Barrois reads a telegram from the Geological Society of France. 
M. Gaudry is selected to preside at the general assembly during the 
afternoon session. 
Safurdai/, Aug. 23 {Sept. 4), 1897. General Assemblij. Morning 
Session. 11:1') a. m. 
M. Zirkel presiding. 
The chair reads the list of effective members of the committee to 
study the question of general nomenclature. They are MM. Barrois, 
Capellini, Hughes, Renevier, Teitze, Tschernyschew, H. Williams, v. 
Zittel. 
The chair read the resolution of the 42 petrographers. M. Loewin- 
son-Lessing presented a resume of his pamphlet "On the classification 
and nomenclature of the eruptive rocks.'' M. Ramon Adau de Yarza, 
Lagorio, Tschernyschew, Brogger, Duparc, Iddings, Zirkel, Renevier, 
and Frazer discussed the question. The chair put the question of 
maintaining or not the committee named at Ziirich. After discussion 
by Renevier, Wichmann, Tschernyschew, Brogger, Barrois, and Ber- 
trand, the general assembly decided to retain the Ziirich committee by 
29 ayes to 19 noes. 
The consideration of the foundation of the international journal of 
petrography was then taken up and discussed by Karpinsky, Brogger, 
and Tschernyschew. The general assembly decided to appoint the 
committee suggested by the council (see ante), with the addition of the 
names K. Schmidt and Thorneborn. M. Karpinsky presented to the 
Congress in the name of M. Nitze, "Gold deposits of North Carolina, 
monazite, and monazite deposits of North Carolina." 
The chair then gave the floor to M. Frazer who presented the Hayden 
