522 . GEOPHYSICS 



ringing speech by Professor Suess, and it expresses my own views 

 most accurately. 



Emmons's Resolution 



"It is a well-known fact that many of the fundamental problems 

 of geology, for example those concerning uplift and subsidence, 

 mountain-making, vulcanology, the deformation and metamorphism 

 of rocks and the genesis of ore-deposits, cannot be discussed satis- 

 factorily because of the insufficiency of chemical and physical investi- 

 gations directed to their solution. Thus, the theory of large strains, 

 either in wholly elastic or in plastic bodies, has never been elucidated; 

 while both chemistry and physics at temperatures above a red heat 

 are almost virgin fields. 



"Not only geology, but pure physics, chemistry, and astronomy, 

 would greatly benefit by successful researches in these directions. 

 Such researches, however, are of extreme difficulty. They would 

 require great and long-sustained expenditure, as well as the organized 

 cooperation of a corps of investigators. No existing university seems 

 to be in a position to prosecute such researches on an adequate scale. 



"It is, therefore, in the judgment of the Council of the Congres 

 Ge"ologique International, a matter of the utmost importance to the 

 entire scientific world that some institution should found a well- 

 equipped geophysical laboratory for the study of problems of geology 

 involving further researches in chemistry and physics." 



