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Mr. Miller. You liave ships all over the Puciiic and elsewhere. Do 

 you not think we could make very good use of your ships if we gave 

 you that money along with the authority ? You would not dodge the 

 opportunity, would you ? 



Admiral Hirshfield. Well, we always try to do what we are told, 

 Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. Well, I can understand your position. This is some- 

 thing that, frankly, our committee is very much concerned with. 



I think we can get some things squared aroinid up at this big school 

 of yours. Here is a great potential in tlie held of oceanography. 



Admiral Hirshfield. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. We are still going to examine this. 



Mr. Drewry ? 



Mr. Drewry. Xo, thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. Thank you very much. Admiral. 



Admiral Hirshfield, Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. Dr. Preston E. C^loud, Geological Survey. 



Dr. Cloud, we would be very happy to hear from you. You have a 

 prepared statement, I believe? 



STATEMENT OF DR. PRESTON E. CLOUD, JR., GEOLOGIST, 

 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



Mr. Clodd. I have a prepared statement but, if it may go into the 

 record without the formality of reading it, I would like briefly to 

 summarize its main points. 



Mr. Miller. It is only a hve page statement. I think we would have 

 time. Suppose you give us your statement because 1 am very much 

 interested in the Geological Survey. I almost joined it once. 



Mr. Cloitd. I have been told that this statement is a little technical. 

 It may bore you. 



Mr. Miller. Let us hear it. We are in the general field of science, 

 I think. 



Mr. Cloud. The Geological Survey is the Federal agency responsi- 

 ble for exploring, evaluating, and interpreting the Xation's mineral 

 resources, the geologic framework in which they occur, and the basic 

 processes that affect both. During 80 years of research and sui-vey 

 experience in these fields it has held to the broad concept that geology 

 is the science of the whole earth, including its internal and water- 

 covered parts and the waters themselves. Our specific investigations, 

 however, have moved from the frontiers of the expanding West to 

 the frontiers of the mind, and particularly in recent years, to those 

 of the continent itself. 



Papers giving residts of the Geological Survey's research on oceanic 

 and estuarine processes, hydrography, sediments, and biology within 

 the geographic areas appropriate to the Survey have been appearing 

 in scientific journals and Goverment publications for the past 45 years. 

 As a result of independent and collaborative activities by Geological 

 Survey personnel, more than 60 reports on a wide variety of oceano- 

 graphic problems have been issued during the past 10 yeai*s. During 

 fiscal year 1960 the Geological Survey will have spent about $400,000 

 on research of an oc^anographic nature, and in fiscal 1961 present 

 plans call for increasing this to about $600,000. By reason of a long 



