WHEREAS, The United States Navy Department, in cooperation with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, conducted a gravity‐campaign in 1928, during which observations were made under the' direction of Dr. P. A. Vening‐Meinesz, Member of the Dutch Geodetic Commission, at many points in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean to the northward of Porto Rico, thus adding materially to the knowledge of the crust of the Earth in the regions covered, and furnishing data for the figure of the Earth, andWHEREAS, Much additional information about gravity at sea should be secured to supplement the work already done in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and West Indian waters, andWHEREAS, It is only on a submarine that such observations can be made, therefore be itRESOLVED, That the American Geophysical Union of the National Research Council recommends to the Navy Department that it give thought to the question of continuing its work on gravity at sea and of securing the necessary soundings to supplement such work, especially in the waters of the West Indies including the Caribbean Sea, and be it furtherRESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Secretary of the United States N