4 Frazer on Int. Cong, of Geologists. 
of nianv obsciiio points iL-latiiig to ideological classification and nomen- 
clature, etc., etc. 
The other chuiscs rehite to the appointment of Torrell and 
]3aiimh;uier, and others, to assist the committee, which hitter was 
composed of W. B, Rotj^ers, James Hall, J. W. Dawson, J. S. 
Newberry, T. S. Hunt, C. H. Hitchcock and R. Pumpelly, [Ex- 
ecuti\e ]5roceedings, A. A.A.S. I^tiffalo meeting, 1876]. 
PkKPAKA'IIOXS KOIt THE CONCJRKS.S. 
At the Nashville meeting, in 1877, ^^^*-' ^^tanding Committee 
recommended that Prof. J. P. Lesley and And. C. Ramsay be 
added to the international geological committee. Dr. Hunt pre- 
sented a report of the committee in executive session, and on 
recommendation of the Standing Committee, in addition to the 
above two names, the presidents of the Geological Societies of 
France, London, Edinbingh, Did:»lin, Berlin, Belgium, Italy, 
Spain, Portugal, and of the Lnperial Geological Institute of 
Vienna, were added [Nashville volinne, A. A. A. S.,Exec. Proc. J 
At the Saratoga meeting, August, 1S79, Prof. James Hall, 
chairman of the American committee, made a report of the pro- 
ceedings of the first International Geological Congress in Paris, 
held August 29, 1878, from wdiich the following is extracted: 
There were present at the Congress Profs. Lesley, Hunt, Hall, Cook,. 
Blake, Cope, Chamberlin and Sehwn. 
At the Congress at Bologna, to be held ^\^iig. -;9th 1881, there are two 
principal subjects comprised vmder two groups, and for each of these an 
international committee was named at Paris, ist. Unification of geologi- 
cal cartography. 2nd, Unification of geological nomenclature, under 
which head will be considered all matters relating to classification as 
well as to the value and significance of mineralogical, lithological and 
paleontological characters, thus emliracing many of the most important 
problems of geology. In naming these, as far as jiossible one member 
from each country was appointed, whose duty it is to organize therein 
separate local committee for each group, and to communicate to the 
secretary of the Council of the Paris Congress, and with the local com- 
mittees at Bologna. For the committee on the map the American members 
were Lesley (U. S.), Selwyn (Can.). On geological nomenclature. Hall, 
(U. S.), and Hunt (Can.). In view of the fact that the work of the Interna- 
tional Geological Congress was initiated by the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, and that it promises to become one of 
permanent and increasing importance, it is believed that it will be for the 
best interests of geological science that the committee be continued etc.' 
