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THE sixth meeting of this Congress will be held at Zurich, commencing on August 29. The Congress was founded at Philadelphia in 1876, the first meeting being held at Paris in 1878; subsequent meetings have been—Bologna, 1881; Berlin, 1885 London, 1888; Washington, 1891. As one result of discussions at the Paris meeting, committees were appointed in different countries to draw up reports on classification, nomenclature, &c. At Bologna these reports were received and discussed, the greater part of the time being thus spent. An additional committee was then appointed to prepare a geological map of Europe; this work is still in progress, but the committees on nomenclature, &c, have practically lapsed, and but little attention has been paid to such subjects at the more recent meetings. At the Washington Congress a committee was appointed to report on the Bibliography of Geology. Lists of bibliographies for each country were to be prepared, and printed in the report of the Washington meeting; but the volume has recently appeared without such lists. It is hoped that the committee will submit a report on this important subject at Zurich.
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TOPLEY, W. The International Geological Congress. Nature 50, 319–320 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050319d0
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