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no organized military force in peace time, and there is in every 

 well-organized state always at least a skeleton army with all 

 branches represented, including a competent staff, arsenals, 

 depots, surplus munitions, and supplies. 



The great scientific bureaus of the Government are organized 

 for the problems of peace and, although they can give a good 

 account of themselves under war conditions, yet would it not 

 be well, at least until the millennium is more clearly in sight, to 

 retain more than a nucleus of an organization of scientific men 

 in the service of the state and especially in the military and naval 

 establishments? We can all name branch after branch of each 

 of these services which before the war contained almost no 

 scientific personnel but to which have been added during the war 

 scores and hundreds of scientific men; and in some cases it was 

 no easy matter to gather and coordinate this personnel. 



What therefore appears to me as one of the very important 

 problems of the transition period, namely the proper balancing 

 and distribution of the scientific forces of the country as between 

 the military and civilian activities of the state on the one hand, 

 and the industrial and academic activities of the country on the 

 other, is even now undergoing the process of being solved. 

 The readjustment will go on largely unperceived at the moment, 

 and the changes will be accompanied by the usual quiet but sig- 

 nificant struggles. The more rapidly the world settles down to 

 more stable conditions, the more promptly will we reach this 

 dynamic equilibrium of the distribution of scientific men and the 

 balancing of competing fields in scientific research. 



GEOLOGY. — Lower Cretaceous age of the limestones underlying 



Florida} Joseph A. Cushman, Sharon, Massachusetts. 



(Communicated by T. W. Vaughan.) 



A study of the Foraminifera of well borings from a number of 



the deeper wells of Florida has proved of more value than was at 



first expected. vSome of these wells reach depths not heretofore 



penetrated in this area. The wells giving the most important 



results and their depths are as follows: 



1 Published by permission of the State Geologist of Florida. 



