The march of geophysics in these post‐IGY days is so rapid and significant that important news comes from every side. In the last issue, the review of the Helsinki General Assembly summarized scientific progress in geophysical science, emphasizing our enlarged vistas of solar and terrestrial relations and of the solid Earth. The present issue turns to progress and plans to make possible new opportunity for geophysical research in meteorology.The establishment of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, after three years of planning, represents a dramatic step forward to meet vital needs for the progress of meteorology as a global science. The new laboratory will rise on Table Mountain at Boulder, Colorado, in close proximity to the National Bureau of Standards and the University of Colorado. It is sponsored by the 14 universities that grant graduate degrees in meteorology in order to supplement their individual facilities for advanced and World‐wide meteorological research. The AGU congratulates the leaders of these universities and their Corporation, the University Corporation on Atmospheric Research, the National Science Foundation, the High Altitude Observatory, the State of Colorado, and especially Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, who will direct this new meteorological center, for their solutions of difficult organizational problems, that have laid the foundations for this vital enterprise. The United States will now have access to facilities that are comparable to the scale of the problems of global meteorology, built in close juxtaposition to our related university facilit