An integrated and unified instructional and research program in the earth sciences is being organized at MIT. Included in this effort are geology, geochemistry and geophysics, the atmospheric sciences, and the oceanographic sciences. Space, facilities, staff and students will be brought together in a common educational effort.A recent gift of $2,527,500 from Mr. and Mrs. Cecil H. Green of Dallas, Texas (Mr. Green is Chairman of the Board of Geophysical Service, Inc. and a Vice President of Texas Instruments, Inc.) will be used to create a Center for Earth Sciences in the form of a major building on the MIT campus. This building will house the teaching and research facilities and laboratories to be used in the program and will be the center for most of the activities in the several Earth sciences.