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region have supplied a large proportion of the older geologists. The East 

 Central States show man}^ small colleges giving little or no geology and 

 a number strong in undergraduate and advanced work. The West Cen- 

 tral States, with a scattered agricultural population, show weakness, while 

 the Pacific Coast offers excellent, though few, opportunities for collegiate 

 and advanced work. 



Graduate work is offered in many institutions, but where advanced 

 degrees are seldom given this merely means that some promising bachelor 

 has been held over as a student assistant. Over two-thirds of the institu- 

 tions which have given advanced work are located in tlie North Atlantic 

 and East Central regions, and over 75 per cent of these have given doc- 

 torates. Graduates who have subsequently received Doctor's degrees have 

 come from 188 colleges, the largest number coming from Harvard, Yale, 

 California, Cornell, Wisconsin, Hopkins, Chicago, Columbia, Indiana, 

 Amherst, arid Oberlin. Doctorates have been given in geology and geog- 

 raphy by 37 institutions, although two-thirds of all the candidates re- 

 ceived this degree from 7 universities and 40 per cent from 3 (Yale, 

 Hopkins, and Chicago). While the movement from individual colleges 

 to certain universities has been marked in a few instances, the movement 

 on the whole has been quite general. Yale and Hopkins have granted 

 degrees to Bachelors from 33 other institutions and Chicago to those 

 from 30. 



There is a general impression that most of the candidates for advanced 

 degrees are now coming from the well equipped undergraduate depart- 

 ments of the higher-degree-granting universities, and that this practice 

 is increasing. This has not been borne out by a study by decades of the 

 educational history of recipients of such degrees. No general change in 

 practice is shown. Tables prepared indicate that two-thirds of the Mas- 

 ters receive their degrees from the college at which they received their 

 Bachelor's degree, while more than half of the Doctors come to the larger 

 institutions from other places. To this general statement California, 

 Indiana, Cornell, and Princeton are exceptions. At California 77 per 

 cent of the Doctors were also Bachelors of that institution ; at Indiana, 

 66 per cent; at Cornell, 64 per cent; at Princeton, 62 per cent; and at 

 Harvard, 54 per cent. 



