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and further that its scope maj, with advantage, be extended to inckide 
the consideration of such questions relating to state and national geologi- 
cal surveys as may from time to time arise. 
On motion of major Powell the report was accepted and the 
recommendation adopted. 
The foreign members were dropped from the American com- 
mittee. 
At a subsequent meeting of the committee, held at Saratoga, 
Sept. I, 1879, the names of Geo. H. Cook, James D. Dana and 
Clarence King, were added to the committee; the other mem- 
bers being James Hall, W. B. Rogers, J. W. Dawson, J. S. 
Newberry, C. H. Hitchcock, R. Pumpelly, J. P. Lesley and T. 
Sterry Hunt. 
At the Boston meeting in 1880, in the executive proceedings, 
the committee on the International Congress of Geologists was 
discharged, [See the report in the proceedings.] 
In the proceedings of the American Association for iSSoand 
1 88 1 no mention of the committee is made, and it does not ap- 
pear among the standing committees of the association in the 
reports of the Boston and Cincinnati meetings for those years. 
At the Montreal meeting, in 18S2, Dr. Hunt stated, in behalf 
of the International Geological Committee, of which Hall, Sel- 
wyn, Lesley and himself had been appointed representatives of 
North America by the Congress at Paris, that a report had 
been prepared some months ago, and asked that the committee 
be continued, which was done, Prof. Hall seconding the mo- 
tion. No mention is made in the volume of the proceedings of 
the Bologna Congress. 
At the Minneapolis meeting, 1883, the committee on the In- 
ternational Congress of Geologists was continued. At this time, 
and the year before, when it was resuscitated, it consisted of 
Hall, Dawson, Newberry, Hunt, Hitchcock, Pinnpelly, Lesley. 
In 1 884 Powell, Cook, vStevenson, Cope, and Smith were 
added by the General Session on recommendation of the Coun- 
cil, and the committee was continued. 
In 1884, Frazer, H. S. Williams and N. II. Winchell were 
added. In this year there were jDresent at the Berlin Congress, 
of the above as delegates. Hall, Newberry, Williams and Frazer. 
Prof. Brush, being in Berlin at the time, and a member of the 
