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comprehensive reports on her geologic features, makes annual provision 

 for more refined and detailed study, both scientific and economic. In 

 Minnesota the final results of a comprehensive survey are being elab- 

 orated and published. In Iowa a detailed areal survey is in progress, and 

 there are also special investigations of geologic problems and mineral- 

 using industries. Missouri, whose geologic survey has been retarded by 

 many changes of policy and personnel, has recently placed her work in 

 charge of one who commands our confidence as well as our good wishes. 

 Kansas and South Dakota make moderate provisions for the prosecu- 

 tion of geologic research by the officers of their universities. In Colo- 

 rado, Arizona, California, and Washington provision is made for a cer- 

 tain amount of investigation in connection with local mining industries. 



Museums. — The United States National Museum provides laboratory 

 facilities for paleontologists of the national survey and enables its cura- 

 tors in geology and paleontology to devote part of their time to original 

 research. The Museum of Comparative Zoology, one of the institutions 

 for research associated with Harvard University, carries on geologic and 

 paleontologic investigations. The Peabody Museum, an institution of 

 research associated with Yale University, is devoted chiefly to the' col- 

 lection and study of fossils and minerals. The American Museum of 

 Natural History in New York, the Museum of Princeton University, and 

 the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg carry on important paleontologic re- 

 searches, both in the field and in the laboratory. 



Universities and colleges. — All of our larger universities and colleges, 

 either directly or indirectly, give substantial aid to geologic investiga- 

 tions. In a few instances funds are contributed to defray research ex- 

 penses in field and laboratory. In some cases the means of publication 

 are provided. In all cases the teachers of geology are either permitted 

 or expected to devote a portion of .their time to scientific investigations. 

 In a number of instances state surveys are by legal enactment associated 

 with state universities, and the geologic survey of Maryland is conducted 

 under the auspices of a university privately endowed. Prominent among 

 the institutions which thus promote the progress of geologic science are 

 Harvard and the Lawrence School, Yale and the Sheffield Scientific 

 School, Columbia and the School of Mines, Cornell, Princeton, Lehigh, 

 Johns Hopkins, Denison, Chicago, Stanford, Amherst, and the univer- 

 sities of Alabama, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, 

 and California ; but the list might be extended so as to include practi- 

 cally almost every institution in which scientific instruction is so far 

 differentiated that the subject of geology occupies the entire attention of 

 one teacher, 



