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REPORT OF THE STURGIS-HOOPER PROFESSOR OF 



GEOLOGY. 



By Professor J. D. Whitney. 



During the past year (1893-94), in accordance with the plan 

 proposed in his last Report, the Sturgis-Hooper Professor delivered 

 a course of lectures on Economical Geology, extending through 

 the whole year, and devoted exclusively to the non-metalliferous 

 minerals, water, salt, and saline substances in general, coal and 

 petroleum being the substances treated with the largest amount of 

 detail. In the next year the metals and their ores will be taken 

 up, and the lectures and instruction given will be entirely con- 

 fined to this subject. With this arrangement much more time will 

 be given to the metals than has before been possible, since the 

 whole subject of Economical Geology will occupy fully a hundred 

 and ten lectures. This development of the instruction in this 

 branch of the science will be useful to students of general geol- 

 ogy, and more especially to those who intend to become teachers, 

 or to engage in practical geological work. For those who may wish 

 to go still farther in this direction, and make a specialty of mining 

 engineering, the information acquired during this course will be 

 found useful, as enabling them to plan their future studies, and 

 to select a place where these can be pursued with those special 

 advantages which are offered by the great mining schools at home 

 or abroad. 



The Library collected by the Sturgis-Hooper Professor is already 

 fairly complete in the departments of Mining and Metallurgy, there 

 being but few important works in those branches which are not 

 found in it, while additions are being constantly made. The same 

 is the case also with regard to that department of Economical 

 Geology which relates to the non-metalliferous minerals, both 

 from the scientific and economical point of view. Some progress 

 has been made in cataloguing and arranging this library, and new 



