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SCIENCE 



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recent article in Science. There is no way in 

 which the endowment of research can be more 

 successfully carried out than by saving for a 

 scientific career those students who have al- 

 ready shown distinguished capacity for work. 

 Not to save them, when they are already an 

 expensive as well as a rare product, is a la- 

 mentable piece of wastefulness. The Sarah 

 Berliner Fellowship Fund is therefore calcu- 

 lated to do more certain and more effective 

 good than many a larger endowment. 



G. L. F. 

 New York, 



November 3, 1911 



A FIELD SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY 

 During the month of September a party of 

 eleven advanced students from the Depart- 

 ment of Geology of the University of Ghicago 

 undertook a careful examination and geologic 

 survey of a portion of the Montrose Quad- 

 rangle of southwestern Golorado. The work 

 was done under the direction of Dr. Wallace 

 W. Atwood, and was the opening season of the 

 Field School of Geology which has been estab- 

 lished in connection with the advanced work 

 in geology at the University of Ghicago. 



The headquarters during the season was 

 Ouray, Golorado. The party lived in camp, 

 and the work was conducted as nearly as was 

 practicable in conformity with the require- 

 ments of the National Survey. The area se- 

 lected for work was west of the Ouray Quad- 

 rangle and north of the Telluride Quadrangle. 

 It was at the north side of the San Juan 

 Mountains where a large variety of formations 

 and of structural and stratigraphic problems 

 was presented. 



During the first few days the party worked 

 as a single group, visiting typical exposures of 

 the formations as they had been mapped 

 in the adjoining quadrangles, in an excursion 

 into the interior of the range for an apprecia- 

 tion of the mountain mass adjoining the area 

 to be surveyed and in an examination of cer- 

 tain of the more accessible mines and mills 

 in the vicinity of Ouray. At the close of this 

 introductory work the party was broken up 

 into " teams " of two or three each, and each 



" team " was given a separate portion of the 

 unmapped area for which that " team " was 

 held responsible. When the work accessible to 

 one camp had been completed, the camp was 

 moved into the adjoining area and the new 

 territory divided among the various " teams." 

 Special care was given in the redistribution of 

 work that the men received as wide a range of 

 experience in field work as was possible. 

 During the four weeks the party surveyed with 

 care about 160 square miles, and had oppor- 

 tunity of examining a somewhat larger area. 

 The problems met with involved many in 

 stratigraphy, some in faulting, folding, intru- 

 sion, extrusion, glaciation and a complex ero- 

 sion history. The region selected was one of 

 great scenic beauty and of diverse human in- 

 terests, so that the season in camp was a most 

 pleasant and agreeable one. The average ex- 

 pense for the student, including the tuition at 

 the university and all traveling and camp 

 expenses, was $150. The University of Chi- 

 cago has purchased a camp outfit and it is 

 proposed that the work of this Field School 

 of Geology be continued in Colorado for a 

 number of seasons. It may then be moved to 

 some other region where there is an unsur- 

 veyed field that presents a wide range of 

 geologic phenomena. 



WISCONSIN GEOLOGICAL AND NATUSAL 

 HISTORr SURVEY 



The work of the survey, during the season 

 just closed, has been carried on in three 

 divisions. 



I. Geology.— ^i&te Geologist W. 0. Hotch- 

 kiss, has been in charge of a party of six men, 

 completing the field work begun in 1910 on 

 the Florence Iron District. This district is 

 the western extension of the Menominee Iron 

 Range of Michigan and connects that range 

 with other districts to the northwest. Its 

 geology has long been a puzzle to geologists, 

 as well as to those interested in mining, and 

 the results of the survey are awaited with 

 much interest. The territory has been very 

 carefully studied and the survey will show a 

 considerable area in which it will be worth 

 while to prospect for iron ore. 



