TABLE 4.—Number of colleges beginning the subject of geology in the different years from Previous to 1845 there were 31 colleges and universities teaching geology, 1 beginning in 1804, 1 in 1807, 1 in 1817, and 1 in each of the years between 1820 and 1845, except the years 1822, 1824, 1833, and 1834, when there were none, and the years 1825, 1826, 1835, 1836, 1839, and 1843, when there were 2 each year, and in 1837 there were 3. It will be noticed that there were more beginning the subject in the year 1894 (14) than in any previous year. In the same year two professorships in geology were endowed. The effect of the civil war will be noticed in the years 1861, 1862, and 1863, and the financial panic of 1877 in the few years following that date. List of the presidents of colleges who teach geology, the name of the college, and the branches taught by each. |