PUBLICATIONS ON GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY 245 



Areal, historical, and stratigraphic 11 per cent 



Paleontology 12 



Petrography and mineralogy 11 



Water 1 



100 



The year selected may have been abnormal, but the proportions are 

 about the same as former statistics have recorded. 



SOURCE 



To test the source of supply of articles, the articles listed for 1914 were 

 classified by pages published according to the probable source of funds, 

 with the following results : 



Based on Federal funds, approximately 9,500 pages, or 17 per cent 



Based on State funds, approximately 15,500 pages, or 28 



Based on university and foundations 11,000 pages, or 20 



Based on Canadian official 10,000 pages, or 18 



Based on individuals 9,000 pages, or 17 



55,000 100 



The figures show that over 60 per cent of the published matter on the 

 geology of North America is based on work financed by public funds, and 

 the remainder largely by universities and foundations through grants or 

 special facilities and free time for individual investigators. In these 

 respects research and pi^blications in geology and geography dift'er ap- 

 preciably from those of some other subjects. 



Oeganizations supporting Research in Geology and Geography 



The organizations supporting research in geology and geograpliy are 

 quite different. For the former we have the IT. S. Geological Survey 

 and 40 State organizations, together with a few societies. On the other 

 hand, for geography the support from Federal funds is slight and scat- 

 tered through a number of departments and bureaus, such as the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Hydrographic Office, the Department of 

 Labor, the Board of Foreign Trade Advisers, and other agencies. Such 

 geographic work as is done by State organizations is usually conducted 

 by local geological surveys or those agencies interested in some particular 

 subject which requires cartographic and distributional discussion. 



The amount of money expended annually by the State and Federal 

 survey may be appreciated from the accompanying table : 



XVII — Bull. Gf.ol. Soc. Am., Vol. 32, 1920 



