TITLES AND ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS 81 



ENGINEERING GEOLOGY IN AND AFTER THE WAR 

 BY CHAKLES P. BERKEY 



(Ahstract) 



The nature and extent and importance of the service of geology in the late 

 military operations, and the state of preparedness of responsible men and 

 organizations for putting this science to its fullest use, will be made the text 

 for comment and suggestion bearing on the present period of academic recon- 

 struction. 



Presented in abstract by the author from notes. 



Discussed by Messrs. Whitman Cross, 0. E. Meinzer, H. M. Ami, 

 A. W. Grabau, and G. F. Loughlin. 



Discussion 



O. E. Meinzer : I wish to indorse the statements of the last speaker to the 

 effect that what the geologists have gained by their war work is not in contri- 

 butions to principles or methods of the science, but in the training they have 

 received in applying their results to intensely practical problems and in the 

 inspiration that has come from finding that these results were of definite value 

 in the great national crisis. The United States Geological Survey has long 

 acted, in an informal way, as consulting geologists for the War and Navy 

 Departments in matters of water supply. When the war came this relation 

 was continued ; but the demands for advice became much more numerous, 

 until by the end of the war practically all the water-supply geologists that had 

 not entered the Army were working on War or Navy projects. The War and 

 Navy Departments did not want long erudite reports, but very definite and 

 concisely stated advice on which they could act immediately. A number of 

 the reports were made in telegrams — some of them brief telegrams. There 

 was immense inspiration in the realization that our scientific work could be 

 put to such definite use in the prosecution of the war. 



I wish also to call attention to the work done by the Ground Water Division 

 of the Survey for the War Department in locating practically all watering 

 places and localities where water supplies could be developed in the region 

 within 100 or 150 miles of the Mexican border, for 350 miles, from Tucson 

 west. Almost complete data are now available to the War Department on 

 water supplies along the border from El Paso to the Pacific coast. 



GEOLOGY IN THE STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS 

 BY HERBERT E. GREGORY 



{Abstract) 



The purpose of the Students' Army Training Corps was to provide physical 

 and mental training for prospective officers. Obviously, the equipment of 

 officers should include a knowledge of soils, ground water, rivers, swamps, and 

 topographic features as seen in the field and as read from topographic maps. 

 At the request of a committee of the War Department, the Division of Geology 



VI — Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 30, 1918 



