At a meeting of the Institute of Petroleum held at the Royal Society of Arts in London, April 29, 1943, Professor V. C. Illing, a Vice‐President of the Institute, delivered a paper entitled Education and the Petroleum Industry which was published in the Journal of the Institute of Petroleum, Vol. 29, No. 238, pp. 259–283 (October, 1943). The section on exploration appeared to be of particular interest: consequently, permission was secured from Professor Illing and the Institute to reprint it. (Editor’s Note.)