222 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1887 AND 1888. 



North Carolina. — By tlio death of State Geologist W. 0. Kerr, in 1 884, 

 a large amount of geologic material was left among the State archives 

 in crude condition ; and in order that this material might be rendered 

 available to the State, Prof. Joseph A. Holmes, of the State University, 

 at Chapel Hill, was api)ointed to collate, digest, and publish it. This 

 report, which represents the -work of the State survey during the bi- 

 ennial period, is now in ])ress. 



Ohio. — The activity of the State geologic survey of Ohio decliued 

 with the publication of the elaborate series of final reports b^^ Dr. J. S. 

 Newberry during thepcriodl873-1878 j but the economic results to which 

 the scientific investigations reported u[)on in these volumes were pre- 

 liminary were subsequently elaborated ami expanded by Dr. Newberry's 

 successor, Prof. Edward Orton, of the State University. During the 

 biennial period there was renewed activity in economic investigation 

 under the stimulus of the discovery of rock gas and petroleum in largo 

 quantities within the State; and two editions of a preliminary report 

 upon these substances, together with an elaborate final rei)ort upon the 

 various mineral resources of the State, have been j)ublished since the 

 beginning of 1887. 



Pennsylvania. — The most elaborate geologic survey ever conducted 

 under the auspices of a single American State was recently made in 

 Pennsylvania. As the local studies in various counties approached 

 coini)letion the results were published in seventy or eighty octavo vol- 

 umes; the activity of the survey then diminished somewhat, and the 

 energies of the director. Dr. J. P. Lesley, and his chief assistant, C. A. 

 Ashburner, were directed toward the digestion of the material thus . 

 collected ami the preparation of final reports. Annual reports have 

 however been regularly issued; and during the biennial period advance 

 sheets of a dictionary of fossils, which although primarily paleontologic 

 is designed for the use of geologists, have also been issued. 



Texas. — The second State geologic survey created within the bien- 

 nial ])eriod is that of Texas, instituted and endowed liberally in 1888, 

 with E. T. Dnmble as State geologist, and provision for two or more 

 assistants. No jiublications have thus far appeared. 



Wyoming. — A Territorial geologist (Louis D. Ricketts) has been em- 

 ployed in investigating the geologic structure and mineral resources of 

 this Territory during the biennial period, and an annual report cover- 

 ing the operations during 1887 has been published. 



EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 



There are a number of universities and colleges in America which 

 promote geologic science by providing (sometimes indirectly) for origi- 

 nal investigations on the part of officers and pupils, and by publish- 

 ing the results of these investigations. 



Colorado State School of Mines. — In this institution researches in 

 geology, mineralogy, mining, etc., are prosecuted by the president. Dr. 



