THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
Vol. II. SEPTEMBER, 1888. No. 3. 
THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF GEOLOGISTS. RE- 
PORTS OF THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE TO THE 
LONDON SESSION. 
The origin and history of this Congress have been givien by Dr. Frazer 
in volume i of the Geologist. He has also sketched the work of the 
American Committee to and including its sixth meeting. 
The seventh meeting took place at New Haven on December 29, 1887. 
There were present Cook, Newberry, FVawell, Stevenson, N. H. Win- 
chell. Hunt, Williams, Cope, Hitchcock, and Frazer. In the absence of 
Dr. Hall, Dr. Hunt was elected chairman; and on the ruling of Dr. 
Hunt, Dr. J. D. Dana was declared an active member of the committee. 
The main object of the meeting was to receive, discuss and act on some 
reports that had been received since the Spring Lake meeting. These 
were presented, and the reports on the Archean^ by Dr. Frazer, on the 
Devonic, by Prof. H. S. Williams, on the Carbonic, by Prof. J. J. Steven- 
. SOP- ■-)n the Mi'sozok. by Prof. Geo. H. Cook, on the marine Cenozoic, by 
P»ot. IL. A. Smith, and on Quaternary, Recent and Archeology, by major 
J. W. Powell, were approved and o/dered printed. That on the Loiver 
Paleozoic, bv Prof. N. H. Winchell, and on the Interior Cenozoic, by Prof. 
E. D. Cope, were presented in incomplete form, and final action 9n them 
was deferred till the next meeting, which was ordered to be not later 
than April i, i88S. The official edition of the report of the American 
Committee was fixed at 500 copies, of which 300 were ordered to be dis- 
tributed to the members of the Congress. 
The eighth meeting of the committee was held in the Murray Hill 
hotel. New York, April 2, 1888, at which there were present: Cook, 
Cope, Frazer, Hall, Hitchcock, Newberry, Stevenson, and N. II. Win- 
chell. The reports on the Loiver Paleozoic and on the Interior Cenozoic 
were read and accepted, and owing to the withdrawal by major Powell 
of his report on .Quaternary, Recent and Archeology, Prof. C. H. Hitch- 
cock was appointed to prepare a digest of American opinion. 
The committee by unanimous vote requested Mr. C. D. Walcott to 
present to it, for publication with its reports, a memoir on the Taconic, 
