BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 30, pp. 165-188 March 31, 1919 



GEOLOGY IN THE WORLD WAR AI^D AFTER ^ 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDEESS BY WHITMAX CROSS 



(Delivered before the Geolocical Society December SI, 1918) 



CONTENTS 



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introduction 165 



War geology 166 



Tlie role of geology in earlier wars 166 



Conditions at tlie beginning of the war 168 



Organization of geological work in the Allied and German armies .... 169 



Geological service on the western front 171 



Tlie work of the Division of Geology and Geography in the National Re- 

 search Council .- 176 



History of its organization 176 



General character of the work 177 



Endeavor to promote the use of geologists in the army 178 



Instruction of officers in geology, geography, map-reading, etcetera . . . 179 



Distribution of books by W. M. Davis and D. W. Johnson 182 



Cooperation with Government bureaus and other organizations 182 



Disposition and use of the report on materials and facilities for rapid 



road and fortification construction 183 



Geology after the war 184 



Introduction 



The great World War which has now come to a happy termination, 

 through the triumph of the forces battling for justice and freedom over 

 the powers of ruthless oppression, has been called "the war of the Age of 

 the Natural Sciences.^^ We all know how the wonderful discoveries and 

 inventions of the last few decades in physics and chemistry have been 

 applied to the development of terrible and often cruel weapons or engines 

 of war. All sciences have been called on. Even geology has had its field, 

 not so much through discoveries as from the waging of an almost new 

 type of warfare, which became dominant at times in many places. 



* Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society .lune 2. 1919. 



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