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REPORT OF THE STURGIS-HOOPER PROFESSOR OF 



GEOLOGY. 



By Josiah D. Whitney. 



During the year a course of lectures was given on Mineral Yeins 

 and Metalliferous Deposits, with special reference to the mode of 

 occurrence and utilization of the useful metals and their ores, the 

 course forming an introduction to the sciences of Mining and 

 Metallurgy. This course was attended by about twenty students, 

 mostly Seniors, with a few Graduates. 



The slides belonging to the lithological collections, mentioned in 

 the last Report as having been transferred to the keeping of the 

 Instructor in Petrography in the College (Dr. Wolff), still remain 

 in the hands of Professor Wadsworth, Director of the Michigan 

 Mining School, and no recent information has been received from 

 him in regard to the preparation of the report intended as the 

 continuation of the " Lithological Studies," of which the first part 

 was published in the Museum Memoirs several years ago. These 

 slides would be useful, as a necessary complement of the collection 

 to which they belong, for the Instructor in Petrography, and should 

 be returned unless Professor Wadsworth finds himself able within 

 a reasonable time to prepare a report on the same. 



The beginning of cataloguing the library belonging to this de- 

 partment has been made by Miss Clark, and a portion of the 

 books temporarily arranged on the shelves. A considerable 

 number of volumes have been transferred to the Museum Library. 

 The shelf room, however, is quite inadequate for the proper 

 arrangement of the books, and it is necessary that more room be 

 provided, or that the Geological and Mining Library belonging to 

 this department be divided up in some such way as shall be found 

 to be best suited to meet the wants of those who desire to 

 use it. 



Most of the time of the Sturgis-Hooper Professor has, during 

 the past year, been given to work on the Century Dictionary, 



