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PROE JAMES K. I)I;\TTERSON, PH. D.

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PARIS, FRANCE, AUGUST m TO 13TH, 1375.‘

FRANKFORT, KY.:
PRINTED AT THE KENTUCKY YEOMAN OFFICE.
’ JAMES A. HODGES, PUBLIC PRINTER.
1876.

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 IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

l\'IOI\'DAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1876. -
MR. PRESTON offered the following resolution, which was adopted,
viz: '

Ram/val, That 1,000 copies of the report of Prof. James K. Patterson, who was ap-
pointed by Gov. Leslie to attend the International Congress of Geographical Sciences, at
Paris, in the year 1875, he primed for the use of this House. ‘ ‘

IN SENATE, l

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 1876.
MR. LINDSAY offered the following joint resolution, which was adopted,
viz:

\VIHiRICAS, The Governor of this Commonwealth appointed James K..Pntterson, Presi-
dent of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, Commissioner to
represent this State in the International Congress of Geographical Sciences, held in the city
of Paris; and whereas, the Governor has received 11 report from President Patterson
abounding in matter of interest and value to the people of this Commonwealth; therefore,
be it . ‘
Result/ed /{I/ My General x1.t.VL‘/l!/I(]’ (If My Gimmmzwm/l/i of Itiwlm‘lj', That the Public
Printer be directed to print and furnish each member and officer of the General Assembly
fifty copies of said report.

Adopted by House of Representatives February 9th,.and approved
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AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, I
KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, r
LEXINGTON, K12, December 10, 1875,)
To ffz's Era/[Hwy jAMEs B. lVICCREARY, Cowl-7101' 0f [(CIZZth/tj’:

DEAR SIR: I beg to submit to you, and through you to the Legisla—
ture, the following report: '

About the last of May I received an appointment from your es-
teemed predecessor, Gov. P. H. Leslie, to represent the State of Ken»
tucky in the International Congress of Geographical Sciences to be
holden in Paris, France, about midsummer. In order to be present
at its deliberations, as well as to attend the meeting of the “British
Association for the Advancement of Science,” to be holden at Bristol,
England, I applied for leave of absence from my college duties till the
middle of November. This obtained, I set out about the middle of
June, and reached Paris in time for the opening session of the Con-
gress.

The International Congress of Geographical Sciences met for the first
time in 1874, at Antwerp, and was presided over by the distinguished
Belgian, M. Charles d’Hane Steenhuyse. Its origin was due to MM.
Charles Reulens, Elie de Beaumont, d’Avezac d’Halloy, and Francis
Garnier, names representtng the most advanced thought and scientific
cultureof Europe. Its object is to discuss all facts relating to Geogra—
phy in its widest sense ; to encourage discoverers, and promote discovery;
to demonstrate by facts the great importance of scientific research; to
encourage the nations to a generous emulation in promoting the diffusion
of knowledge, by the dissemination of learning; by the development of
their resources, and by the multiplication of such facilities for intercom—
munication as will bring distant people nearer and bind still more closely
together those with whom we are already in most intimate relationship.

The Congress of Antwerp adjourned to hold its next meeting in the
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sitting was opened by the President of the Congress of 1874, who, in
a short speech, handed over the chair to Vice Admiral Baron de la
Ronciere Le Noury, President of the Geographical Society of Paris.
The great hall of the Tuileries, in which, during the empire, Napoleon
III delivered the speech from the throne to the assembled Senate and‘
Corps Legislatif, had been set apart by the government for the sittings
of the Congress, together with as many government offices in the Tuile—
ries as might be required for the sittings of the sections and for the ex-

_position which formed an accompaniment of the Congress. Among

the distinguished personages present were the President of the French
Republic, the Grand Duchess Marie, of Russia, the Grand Duke Con-
stantine, Sir Henry Rawlinson, President of the Royal Geographical
Society of London, M. de Semenoff, of that of St Petersburg, M. de
Beaumont, of that of Geneva, M. Correnti, who represented the Geo-
graphical Society of Rome, Hunfalvy of Pesth, and Weth of Amster-
dam. Of the celebrated travelers whose names are more or less familiar
to the general reader, there were present, MM. Rholfs, de Schlagintweit
Saki'inlunski, the Marquis de Compiegne, Pinart, and Doctors Nachtigal
and Harpy. More than 400 of the most distinguished men of Europe
were in attendance, many of whom were sent by the respective States
whence they came. France contributed many of the more illustrious
members of the Institute, easily discriminated from the foreigners pres-
ent by the little red button worn on the left lappel of the coat, many
members of the Assembly, and many representatives from scientific
bodies in different parts of the nation. Next to France, Austria, Russia,
and England were most largely represented, each of those nations send—
inguin a representative capacity, many of their most distinguished scien—
tists. The Government of the United States was represented by Mr.
Nourse, and the State of Virginia by Col. Stevenson.

Admiral Le Noury, in opening the Congress, dwelt upon the impor—
tance of the geographical sciences, not so much from their theoretical
as from their practical utility. He vindicated their claim to recognition
upon their fruitfulness as elements of production. Out of scientific ge«
ography grow commercial geography, economic geography, and political
geography, three sciences which modify, if they do not determine, the
whole fabric of modern civilization. The pioneers of commerce, of civ-
ilization, and of Christianity are the hardy travelers who venture into
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phy presents. The known has been pressing back the unknown since
the first awakening of the human intellect. Most of the surface of the
earth has been traversed and mapped; but in addition to the unexplored
tracks, there are fields, vast and varied, upon which our knowledge is
still meagre. There are questions of the relation of geological formation
to surface and soil and climate; questions relating to the distribution of
animal and vegetable life; questions regarding the distribution of races
and languages; questions bearing upon the activities and industries, the
economics and commerce and statistics of nations, which have not been
answered, and which it will require years of patient research to investi-
gate and reduce to systematic knowledge. To. discuss these and kindred
subjects this Congress assembles.

The address of Admiral Le Noury was considered to furnish a good
outline of the work to be done. A splendid banquet, which many of
the officers of State and civil and military functionaries attended, closed

the proceedings of the clay.
I shall not attempt to present in chronological order the business of

the Congress, but merely to indicate the general method of procedure,
and the nature and scope of the questions discussed.

The'Congress was divided into seven sections, each of which met
daily at 10 A. M., and sat till I P. M. The members sat grouped
around a large table, with writing material and papers. Papers pre-
viously prepared were read with the sanction of the section, and when
finished, became subjects of discussion. A general sitting was held
every afternoon in the great hall of the Tuileries, attended By all the
sections, at which an abstract of the questions discussed, and the com
ciusions arrived at by the sections, were reported.

Section first was designated the Mathematical, and embraced Mathe~
matics, Geography, Geodesy, and Topography. It discussed the fol-
lowing questions: The substitution of the centesimal division of the-
quarter of the circumference for the division called-sexagesimal, and the
consequences thereof relative to division of time in Astronomy; dis-.
cussion of recent inventions for measuring time and registering observa-

‘ tions; utilization of telegraphic communication for measuring differ—-
ences of Longitude; measure of an arc of the meridian in~Southernu
Hemisphere, particularly in the Argentine Republic; study of the-
variations of gravity, by aid of the pendulum; instruments the most

simple, and methods the most rapid, for' determining the magnetic;
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