Geographic Notes 



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From Hugh M. Smith, Bureau of Fisheries 



Bleaching and Curing Irish Moss at Scituate, Massachusetts 



ment. They learn not merely the 

 names and characteristics of the moun- 

 tains that surround their native place 

 and the streams that flow through it, 

 but they study the special resources 

 and industries of the locality, the 

 city's streets, parks, museums, art 

 galleries, water works, garbage plant, 

 fire department, etc. It is a study 

 that makes them more enlightened 

 citizens. 



Similar studies are prosecuted in 

 many American schools, and the Ameri- 

 can teacher has at his command a val- 

 uable aid in studying many localities, 

 of which, unfortunately, few avail 

 themselves. This aid consists of the 

 separate folios of the geologic atlas of 

 the United States which the United 

 States Geological Survey is engaged in 



publishing. Each folio includes a top- 

 ographic map and geologic map of a 

 small area of country, together with 

 explanatory and descriptive texts. Fre- 

 quently these folios also contain struct- 

 ure section sheets and columnar section 

 sheets, maps illustrative of the artesian 

 water supply of the area, diagrams of 

 coal sections, or photographic reproduc- 

 tions of specially interesting topographic 

 features or of peculiar fossil types. 

 The Survey has issued 119 geologic 

 folios up to date. That means that 

 teachers may have at very little cost the 

 most complete and scientific description 

 yet published of 119 different areas in 

 the United States, each illustrated by 

 the latest topographic and geologic 

 maps. As text-books in geography, 

 geology, and mineralogy for the limited 



