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Surveys. The explorations cannot be sustained by private in- 
dividuals, and no private person can defray the expenses of the 
necessary publication. J.abor is secured here at a cheaper rate 
by the government than in any other field, for salaries are small, 
and much work is done gratuitously. Students as a rule are 
poor, and the number of rich men engaged in its pursuit is small 
indeed. - To withdraw government aid is to destroy a most useful 
bee eitic, and to leave many departments at least in the hands 
of those few rich men. 
But in further self-contradiction, Gen. Garfield gives qualified 
Support to the proposed new organization of the pate ment 
than by this method. As the surveys are now organized, they 
stimulate each other, offer a wider field for the development of 
Science, and furnish a supply of intellectual food from which s 
text-books of the next half century will be drawn. An 
Garfield desires this work practically suspended, and the United 
States to retire from the position which she now holds in the 
commonwealth of nations, as a patron and producer of kitenge 
for her people. — Philadelphia Bulletin. 
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Catalogue of the prope ds of the U. S. Geological and Geogra ae me 
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