A bore‐hole in the Bahamas

Abstract

During the summer of 1932 a boring was made on the Island of New Providence, the Bahamas. The boring was made possible through grants from the Royal Society of Great Britain, the National Research Council of the United States, and private subscriptions. The hole was drilled by the E. J. Longyear Exploration Company. Acknowledgment is given the Longyear Company for their economy in operations. Special acknowledgments are due to His Excellency Captain B. E. H. Clifford, Governor of the Bahamas, and to public officials at Nassau for cooperation, which included both intense scientific interest and material help. The sinking of the bore‐hole is an integral part of the project called the International Expeditions to the West Indies, which has been sponsored by the Department of Geology at Princeton University, with the advice of the Committee of the American Geophysical Union on Geophysical and Geological Study of Oceanic Basins.