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Georgetown University

an educational institution in Washington, D. C., founded in 1789 under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 205; students, 2,102; volumes in the library, 100,000; number of graduates, 8,466; president, John B.

Creeden, Ph. D.

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVER- SITY, an institution for higher education, founded in 1821, in Washington, D. C., as Columbian College. It retained this name until 1873, when it was incorporated as Columbian University. In 1904, with several other educational institutions, it was merged under the name of George Washington University.

There were in 1919 2,654 students and 275 instructors. President, W. M. Collier, LL.D.

Ogeechee, the Cannouchee, the Altamaha, the Satilla, and the St. Mary's, running to the Atlantic; and the Withlacoochee and Allapaha uniting in Florida to form the Suwanee, the Ochlockonee, and the Flint and Chattahoochee forming the Apalachicola, at the Florida line, flowing directly into the gulf. Geology. The rocks of the N. part of the State are mostly of metamorphic or crystalline formation and include granites, gneisses, sandstones, and schists. A belt of Silurian origin extends through the N. W. counties with frequent outcrops of Devonian structure.

There are extensive coal measures in the extreme N. W. In central and most of southern Georgia the metamorphic rocks are overlaid with Tertiary deposits, and farther S. and E. these are themselves overlaid with Quaternary sands and clay. A Tertiary strip borders the ocean, and a Cretaceous deposit occurs in the vicinity of Jefferson county.

Mineralogy. The State is rich in mineral resources, especially in the mountain regions N. of the Chattahoochee, and ranks second in the United States in the production of manganese; sil ver, emery, bituminous coal, antimony, granite, graphite, marble, magnetic and specular iron ore, zinc, limonite, tellurium, galena, mica, roofing slate, pyrites and potter's clay abound. Gold is found in seams of quartz, in veins, and in the disintegrated sands and gravel. It was discovered in 1828 in