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THE INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS. 
24th to 30th), to the Isle of Wight, North Wales, West Yorkshire, 
East Yorkshire (the coast), Norfolk and Suffolk, and perhaps to the 
Jurassic district of Central England. 
As the Congress meets only once in three years, and there are 
many countries to visit, this meeting will in all probability be the 
only one which any of us here present will have the opportunity 
of attending in our own country. Of the advantages of attending 
it not the least will be those connected with its social character. 
It will give us an opportunity, such as we may never again have, 
of meeting the geologists of other countries and exchanging ideas 
with them; and by inviting the foreign geologists to our homes 
for the week of the meeting, and entertaining parties of them who 
may visit our neighbourhood to study British geology, we shall be 
able to extend to them that hospitality which an English man of 
science always receives when visiting foreign countries. 
