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on the European map, held in Berlin, were presented to the 
American committee by Dr. Frazer, secretary. 
Prof. Williams was elected treasurer of the American com- 
mittee. 
Third meeting of the American committee. 
A third meeting of the American committee was held in 
Philadelphia at the University Club, December, 28th, 1886. 
There w^ere present: Hitchcock, Williams, Stevenson, Frazer. 
X)r. Hunt's resignation as secretary of the American committee 
was accepted. The following list of sub-committees, with 
their chairmen, was received from the president and read: 
Archean — Hunt, Hitchcock, Winchell, Pumpelly, Frazer. 
Lower Paleozoic — Hall, Winchell, Lesley. Upper Paleozoic — 
Hall, Lesley, Dawson, Newberry, Stevenson, Williams. Meso- 
zoic — Newberry, Cook, Cope, Powell. Cenozoic (Marine) — 
Eugene A. Smith, Newberry. Cenozoic (Interior) — Cope. 
^7iaternary, Recent, and Archeology. — Powell, Winchell, 
Cook. 
Sir J. W. Dawson's resignation from the American commit- 
tee was accepted. 
Poiirth 7nceting of the Atnerican committee. 
A fourth meeting of the American committee was held in 
Albany (State Hall), on April 6th, 1887; present: Hall, Hitch- 
cock, Cope, Stevenson, Williams, Winchell, Cook, and Frazer. 
Prof. Winchell moved that the decisions of the International 
Congress be accepted by this committee, and that their accept- 
ance be recommended to American geologists. This motion, 
with the modification "that we will be prepared to ask the next 
Congress for a few changes," was finally adopted. 
Preliminary reports on the subjects referred to sub-commit- 
tees were then read and discussed. Reporters were appointed 
for the various sub-committees and charged to get ready I'eports 
for presentation to the American committee at its next meeting, 
just before the next meeting of the A. A. A. S, in New York, 
in August. These reporters were: Archean — Frazer; Lower 
Paleozoic — Winchell; Upper Paleozoic — Stevenson and Wil- 
liams; Mesozoic — Cook; Interior Cenozoic — Cope; Marine 
