Last summer the A.A.P.G. research program in sedimentology was presented for the consideration of the A.P.I. advisory committee on fundamental research. After due deliberation that committee recommended that the A.P.I. should sponsor specific projects within that portion of the program dealing with the origin and early diagenesis of sediments and their contained fluids.

The A.A.P.G. research committee has been holding all projects in abeyance until the A.P.I. decided which portions of the sedimentology program they wished to consider. Now the A.A.P.G. is free to go to work on any or all of the programs dealing with pre-Pleistocene sedimentary rocks.

The most important question before us is--What is the A.A.P.G. going to do? The committee feels that the Association now needs the cooperation of all local geological societies in formulating and completing a constructive and concrete attack on that part of the sedimentology program which

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deals with pre-Pleistocene sedimentary rocks. Such a program would involve a detailed study of specific Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Tertiary formations on the outcrop and in the subsurface over wide areas. It is readily apparent that it would be extremely difficult to make a study of this kind without the active work and cooperation of the local geological societies.

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