±2 The American Geoligist. January. 1905 
passed by acclamation by the Geological Congress, after a 
ringing speech b}^ 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 deforma- 
tion and metamorphism of rocks and the genesis of ore de- 
posits, cannot be discussed satisfactorily because of the in- 
sufficiency of chemical and physical investigations 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 as- 
tronomy would greatly benefit by successful researches in 
these directions. Such researches, however, are of extreme 
difficulty. They would require great and long sustained ex- 
penditure as well as the organized co-operation of a corps of 
investigators. No existing university seems to be in posi- 
tion to prosecute such researches on an adequate scale. 
"It is, therefore, in the judgment of the Council of the 
Congres Geologique International, a matter of the utmost 
importance to the entire scientific world that some institu- 
tion should found a well-equipped geophysical laboratory for 
the study of problems of geology involving further researches 
in c'hemistry and physics." 
