GEOLOGY 117 



French language, are those of DE LAPPARENT (in five 

 volumes) and of HAUG (in two volumes). 



University Studies of Today. For students purposing 

 to pursue geological studies in France, by far the best 

 opportunities are offered in Paris by the University, 

 the College de France, and the Ecole Superieure des 

 Mines, supplemented as they are by the almost unrivaled 

 collection of museums and libraries to be found in the 

 city. Outside Paris, the best opportunities are realized 

 at the provincial universities of Grenoble, Lille, and at 

 Clermont, either because of exceptional strength of the 

 geological staff in the University or because of special 

 facilities for study in the field. Unlike other depart- 

 ments, the laboratory of geologists is out of doors, and 

 opportunities for the investigation of definite problems 

 in the field may well be a determining factor in the 

 choice of the university, provided other conditions are 

 met. At Grenoble exceptional facilities are found for 

 structural, stratigraphical, and palaeontological studies, 

 and for those upon existing glaciers as well. The Uni- 

 versity of Clermont is situated within a classic region of 

 recent though extinct volcanoes, and offers numerous 

 problems in vulcanology. The University of Lille is at 

 the heart of the great coal mining region of the north of 

 France, and special attention is there given to problems 

 of economic geology, to structural geology, and, because 

 of the preeminence of the head of the department in the 

 field of the crystalline rocks, to pre-Cambrian geology 

 as well. 



The attention which for the first time in recent years 

 has been devoted to the geology of the desert areas makes 

 it desirable to draw attention to the unique opportuni- 

 ties offered by the University of Algiers for the study of 

 such conditions. Situated on the borders of the greatest 



