96 Frazer on Int. Cong, of Geologists. 
dent of the American committee instructed the acting secretary 
of the committee during the Berlin Congress, Dr. Frazer, to 
call a meeting of the committee at the Windsor hotel. New 
York, on Friday, January 8th, 1886. 
There were present Hall, Hunt, Newberry, Hitchcock, Ste- 
venson, Cook and Frazer. 
Mr. McGee having been sent by major Powell to represent 
him was by vote of the committee authorized to take part in 
the proceedings. Dr. Newberry moved that the report of the 
proceedings of the Congress be prepared by the secretary, Dr.. 
Frazer, from the notes he took at Berlin, and that a translation 
by him of the reports of the two international committees be 
added to the report of the proceedings. He was also directed 
to write an address to American geologists as a preface to the 
report. 
It was decided to secure the cooperation of the scientific so- 
cieties of the country to secure a meeting of the Congress in the 
United States, next after its meeting in London. 
Secofid meeting of the America?i co?)i7nittee. 
A second meetnig of the American committee was held in the: 
Murray Hill hotel. New York, May 22d, 1886, at which were 
present Hall, Williams, Cook, Stevenson, Cope, Newberry, and 
Frazer. 
After routine business, the committee of five which had been 
appointed at the first meeting "to discuss the attitude of Amer- 
ican geologists toward the decisions of the next Congress" 
etc., was enlarged into, practically, a committee of the whole, 
divided into seven sub-committees, each of which was charged 
with the duty of formulating American opinion on its own par- 
ticular subject. 
(These sub-committees, as finally arranged, will be given in 
the proceedings of the next meeting.) Committees were ap- 
pointed to provide for the distribution of the 100 copies of the 
European map which the American committee had decided to 
order in the name of the United States. The secretary was 
instructed to prepare a report of the work of the committee, 
for presentation at a general session of the A. A. A. S. A copy 
of the Proc«Js Verbaux of the three sessions of the committee- 
