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Sir J. W. Dawson would prefer Eozoic to Archean, and 
adds: " I cannot agree to the various recommendations of the 
report. Many of them are good, but others are absurd." 
The terra Crystallophylliau is objectionable, for there are 
bedded crystalline rocks in all the older formations, and no great 
division can be said to be exclusively crystalline. The same ob- 
jection applies with still greater force to the subdivisions 1, 2, 
3, on p. 55, since rocks of the kind mentioned are not exclu- 
sively characteristic of the Eozoic, and occur in many later 
groups. 
Major Powell does not understand that the International 
Congress has reached many definite conclusions except those 
necessary for the preparation of a map of Europe. 
Dr. T. Sterry Hunt says : " Many of the suggestions of 
the International Congress I cannot accept, but I will not spe- 
cify." 
Prof. Joseph L. Le Conte agrees to all the suggestions, but 
would have preferred some things otherwise. 
Prof. Roland D. Irving would be willing, if there is gen- 
eral consent, to use the terms recommended for the grander divi- 
sions by the Committee, not under the third order. He objects 
to the terminations ' ic ' in Siluric, etc. He says : " I recognize the 
necessity for some sort of agreement as to these terras of grander 
scope, even if they have to be somewhat arbitrarily applied. 
But to establish any further subdivisions designed to be of any 
general applicability, serves only to hinder the geologist who is 
working in a new region."* 
Dr. S. F. Emmons would confine the universal divisions to 
gress, which did not decide it (p. 51, iii.)- The suggestion of which Prof. Dana 
speaks as coming from Switzerland, and to be presented at the Congress of 
1888, appears to be a proposition of the Belgian Committee (see p. 91).] 
This was also left over to the next session by vote of the Berlin Congress. 
The name ' Archean,' and the rank ' group,' were agreed to by tlie Con- 
gress. Pending future consideration. Prof. Hughes's proposal to leave the 
petrographic divisions to the working geologist, and not to assign any chrono- 
logical value to them, was adopted. These tliree votes were all that were 
taken on the Archean Report. 
* Presumably Prof. Irving refers here to tiie establishment of liorizons in- 
termediate between those dividing the series from each other, and not to the 
plan of naming the major and minor divisions when found, on the scale of 
nomenclature suggested. 
