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standing and a feeling of mutual dependence 

 between science and industrial enterprise. The 

 great mass of scientific information that the geo- 

 logical surveys, and geologists in general, have 

 collected and made available in maps and other 

 publications, is being drawn upon more fully; the 

 geological teaching of our universities and technical 

 institutions is making itself felt in a manner 

 unequalled in the past; and new lines of research 

 are being initiated as the result of our altered 

 conditions. 



We can only hope that in the future pure 

 science will have a foremost place in the sympathies 

 of those who direct and control our national affairs, 

 so that by its encouragement we can eliminate from 

 our national life the wasteful principle of trial and 

 error and substitute sound reasoning for the em- 

 piricism of the past. 



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