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is visible in all parts of this work. A hasty glance through 
the list of names reveals fewer mistakes in spelling the proper 
names of German, English, Italian, Russian etc., savants than 
can generally be claimed for an international list. 
2. The programmes and proposed regulations of the con- 
gress; chiefly taken from circulars and announcements issued 
to geologists in advance of its meeting. 
3. The proceedings of the meetings of the council and of 
the Congress. Bulletins of the preceding day containing the 
proposed order of business for the day they were received 
were distributed, subject to correction, each morning of the 
sessions, but to insure greater accuracy a second edition was 
sent in April to all the members, and the corrections which 
were received are embodied in the permanent volume. 
4. The reports of the committees and communications re- 
lating to the collective works of the Congress. 
5. Memoirs presented and corrected by their authors, in- 
serted in the order in which they were returned to the sec- 
retaries. Communications not so returned before the first of 
last April were resuméd by the secretaries and inserted into 
the proceedings. 
6. Succinct resumé of the excursions. 
7. The petrographical lexicon. 
On Section II. p. 65 an error occurs in giving the status 
of the members of the U. S. Geological Survey as “delegates 
of the government of the United States of America.” While 
the said government would doubtless be glad to be represented 
by so efficient a list as Bailey Willis, Hague, and Ward, in 
point of fact the U. S. Government made no appointment 
at all to the Congress unless the present writer is misinfermed. 
These gentlemen were supposed to be appointed by the Bureau 
of the U. S. Geological Survey, i. e. by themselves or their 
chief, Mr. Walcott. 
Business Transactions at the Sessions of the Council. 
I. The subjects to be presented to the Congress were di- 
vided into general and tectonic geology, stratigraphy and 
paleontology, mineralogy and petrography, and applied geol- 
ogy. A. Geikie (A), Zittel, Schmeisser, and Zirkel were 
named as presidents of these sections respectively. II. Oral 
discussions were limited to fifteen minutes. Subjects not re- 
