EDITORIAL 67 



Of the funds of the new survey $10,000 per year is by agreement 

 alloted to topographic mapping in co-operation with the United 

 States Geological Survey, which duplicates this allotment. The 

 remainder is devoted entirely to geology, since Ilhnois provides sepa- 

 rately for the study of its soils, water, natural history, and for engi- 

 neering experiments. In order to promote close co-operation with 

 these various surveys, the director of the State Geological Survey 

 has his ofhce at Urbana at the university, though the control 

 of the organization is vested in an independent commission. 

 This consists of the governor and the president of the State Univer- 

 sity ex officio and, by appointment. Professor Chamberlin of Chi- 

 cago. In September this commission met and elected as director 

 Dr. H. Foster Bain, of the United States Geological Survey and for- 

 merly, as was true of Dr. Worthen, assistant state geologist of Iowa. 

 The remainder of the corps has not yet been announced, except 

 that it is understood that Professor C. W. Rolfe, who is in charge 

 of the department of ceramics at the State University, is also to be in 

 immediate charge of the investigation of the clay resources. Field- 

 work on this has already been begun by Mr. Ross C. Purdy, lately 

 connected with Dr. Edward Orton in his investigation of Ohio clays. 



It is understood that for the present the work of the new survey 

 will be centered mainly on the study of coal and clay, but that the 

 broader problems of the geology of the state are to be re-investigated 

 in the light of the advances made in general knowledge and theory 

 in the quarter of a century which has elapsed since the old survey 

 ceased work. In this work, and in its general activities, geologists 

 both in America and elsewhere extend to the new organization best 

 wishes, and to the state of Illinois congratulations upon having pro- 

 vided the means for such work. 



R. D. S. 



