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REFERENCE was made in Nature of May 28 to the proposed recruitment of American geologists for service in various British Colonial geological surveys. It is stated in Economic Geology of May that the Economic Co-operation Administration has undertaken to finance in part the employment of about twenty-five geologists, petrographers and chemist-assayers for this purpose. The men will be employed by the U.S. Geological Survey, and it is proposed to recruit seventeen field geologists, two petrologists, two chemist-assayers and four ground-water geologists. The qualifications suggested are an honours degree in geology with five years professional field experience, and it is hoped that a few men of longer experience will also be attracted. They will be placed in grades 6–8 of the U.S. Geological Survey according to qualifications, so that their salaries will range from about 8,000 dollars a year upwards. The fields in which they will be employed are given as Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Nyasaland, North Borneo and Sarawak, and British Guiana. Recruitment is to be for three years, after which it is expected that British-trained geologists will be available. The measure is intended to be a temporary expedient devised to overcome lack of personnel in the Colonial geological surveys attributed to the interruption of training during the War.
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American Geologists for British Colonial Development. Nature 164, 97 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164097b0
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