310 The American Geologist. November, 1905. 
research. The various state surveys have also devoted their 
energies more fully to the question — how to make the sur- 
vey immediately useful. Pure science, excepting so far as 
it is prompted and promoted by the search for the useful, 
has heen less in evidence in the state reports. 
In volume 14 of the Geologist (p. 186) in an editorial 
are the following words : 
"It is not too much to say that to the miner, and hence to the 
mining industry, geology must look for most of its future progress, 
at least in the United States. In Canada the economic side of geolo- 
gy has always been put to the front, and systematic geology has 
been comparatively neglected. The reverse has been the case in 
the United States. The example of New York State, which has en- 
tirely neglected, officially, its economic resources, and has spent 
much upon the technical and paleontologic aspects of geological 
science,* has been followed by too many of the state surveys, and 
too closely by the United States Survey. Economic geology has 
made headway in spite of this indifference. Speculative and tech- 
nical geology has had the field for many years, but it becomes more 
and more apparent that room must be made for ah extension of that 
phase of the science which directly concerns the greatest number 
of people." 
The present witnesses the greatest expansion of the 
mining industry known to our history. It is in the flood 
of this movement that the American Geologist is consoli- 
dated with the new journal which is to he more closely 
linked with economic geology. 
In looking over the published plans and purposes of the 
editors of the Geologist, the editors are constrained to admit 
that not all cf their plans and promises have been accom- 
plished; but it is with no feeling of regret or apology that 
they see some of their announced plans and hopes still un- 
realized. Some of the editors who evolved those plans have 
died, and new editors have substituted other contributions, 
which were probably equally within the scope of the journal. 
We had aimed to issue short biographical sketches of 
all deceased American geologists, but in some notable in- 
stances our efforts have failed. Seventy such sketches have 
been published in the Geologist. We have had corres- 
pondence to this end concerning Lieber, Little, Rogers, 
* In the reorganization of the New York Geological Survey, in 1903. 
there has been made provisions for the investigation and report on the 
economic geology of the state. 
