III.—A New Geological Map of North America.

The 10th International Geology Congress, Mexico (1906)

“…The session of 12 September was presided over by the German stratigrapher and palaeontologist August Rothpletz , of Munich University. He invited the Italian mining engineer and author of L'eruzione vesubiana dell 'aprile 1906(1906) Venturino Sabatini (1856-1921 to speak on "La dernière éruption du Vésuve". Tempest Anderson also projected images of such an eruption and presented a communication entitled: "The eruption of Vesuvius".…”

“…During the first day of the Congress, José Guadalupe Aguilera distributed copies of the recently edited Geological Map of North America with a scale of 1:5,000,000. The map included the territories of Alaska, Parry Islands (Queen Elizabeth Islands), Greenland, Iceland, Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and West Indies, as well as parts of Colombia and Venezuela (Hobson, 1906). The data-collection for the publication had been undertaken by Bailey Willis of the USGS, which body was in charge of the publication.…”