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other map has not yet been published, not wit hstanding thai several i imes 
one hus been announced as being on the point of being issued, ii is sim- 
ply because the state geologist is at a loss how to deal with his previous 
opinion of the non-existence of the 25,000 feet of strata of the Taconic sys- 
tem; for even now. notwithstanding all "our accurate knowledge of this 
region, "and "that at the present time comparatively little remains to 
be done to complete the work" (he. eit., p. 31), lie knows less about all 
the strata east of the Hudson river than Dr. Emmons did fifty years ago. 
Cambridge, Mass., June :' f . 1894. Jules Makcou. 
The Sfxtfi Skssioxof the I ntkk national Congress of Geologists. 
The excursions which were announced lor the two weeks preceding the 
opening of the congress were carried through with a fair number of 
participants. The trip over the Jura, managed by Prof. Golliez, with 
the assistance of some of his colleagues, began on August 15, Wednes- 
day, at Geneva, in somewhat inauspicious weather, the first expedition 
being up the Grand Saleve. the largest mountain near Geneva, from 
which an exceedingly beautiful view of the Mont Blanc series can be 
had and on which an exceedingly bad luncheon is obtained at the res- 
taurant of the Trezse Arbres. The weather was rainy and cold and no 
view was obtainable, though there was no lack of enthusiastic travellers. 
including one woman. In the evening the president of the council of 
the canton of Geneva and Colonel Turitini, the mayor of the city, re- 
ceived at a banquet the proposed participants in the congress, and their 
wives. That is to say. the wives were invited, and under the impres 
sion that others were to be present, one of these ladies ai tended, but 
was alone, to her great mortification. 
The guests of this august invitation were not remarkable for any par- 
ticular style of dress. Some had dark coats, but tin- majority had light 
colored suits and boots which were singularly dusty, considering the 
amount of rain which had fallen. The hosts, however, knew what was 
due to the respect of themselves and their guests, atid their bearing 
was irreproachable. 
Their idea of the speaking part of a dinner was. however, slightly 
different from that of other parts of the world. Alter the addresses 
of welcome had been made by the governor and the mayor, the field 
was left free to anyone who chose to occupy it without invitation. 
The old Carl Vogl availed himself of this privilege and made a violent 
intransigeant speech, taken good humoredly by the hosts. The room 
was the foyer of the Geneva theater, and one of the most beautiful of 
its kind in Europe, having much in common with that of the Grand 
< tpera in Paris. 
The next day the party of Jura students started off on then- trip, 
for which they had beautiful weather. A few days later a similar 
dinner was given by the authorities of the canton of Vaud and the 
city of Lausanne, the residence of the chairman of the commit! n 
organization and the president of this session. K. Renevier. This 
was given in the modest dining room of the Caf6 of the theater and 
was iii all respects less imposing than the initial dinner at Geneva; 
