Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-07-10

The area Just north and east Of
Yellowstone national park In Mon
tana this summer will be a c0ncen-
tratiOn point for the activities Of
some Of Americas and foreign
tries outstanding scientists who will
engage in the geological expedition
which will make q comprehensive
study of the phenomena Of that re-
gion.
The personnel of the expedition was
announced recently. Federal and state
agencies. universities, research organ
izatiOns and individual scientists, as
we'll as the Northern Pacific railway,
are cooperating in the three-fold plan
of training students, conducting Scien-
tific research and studying the COM
mercially valuable mineral deposits, &C
cording to the announcement from
Princeton university.
Work planned for the summer in
cludes airplane and topographic map
ping by the war department and the
studies by the United States coast and
work by the Montana bureau Of mines
oAlO 6CoiOSy duO Vic O4AtCO OtoV<o
geological survey. Administration d.
in charge of DR.. W. T. Thorn, Jr., Of
Princeton, acting with the advice Of
Prof. j. P. Rowe, chairman of the de-
partment OF geology, University Of
Montana; and Prof. r. M. Field, also
Of Princeton, who is director OF the
International Summer School of &C.
o1o~xv n~l NYot,ro1 Doco.~n1o D~ q
L. Perry. of Williams college, and Dr..
Erling Dorf, an eminent scientist, will
participate as executive assistants as
well as scientific Investigators. In
addition, the following graduate stu
dents are expected to take part IN the
practical field work: j. S. Smiser, re-
Gently q graduate student at Texas
Christian university, Fort Worth, Tex,
and q StOrrOw Research Fellow OF the
National Research council for $780,
1881; A. K. Snelgrove. formerly Of Nc
Gill university; j. w. Peoples, recent
graduate student at Vanderbilt and
Northwestern universities; j. T. Rouse,
recent graduate student at the Uni
versity Of Cincinnati; J. S. Vhay. Of
Santa Barbara Calf; Kenneth Will
son, Of Pittsburgh; G. B. Hulet, Prince
ton; James H. Breasted, Jr., Chicago:
Thomas P. Cook, Kingston. N. j.; w.
c. Keith. Jr., Beaumont, Tex: j. H.
Coulter, Greensburg, Penn; Freeman
Foote, Old Lyme, Conn: and t. J..
Moles, of Minneapolis.
DR.. Field, together with other men,
berS of the International Summer
School of Geology and Natural Re-
sources, will visit the Yellowstone and
Big Horn region this summer. For
eign guests of this summer school in
clude DR.. Frank Debenham, head Of
the department of geology at Cam
bridge; DR.. H. Schneiderhohn, director
of the meteorological institute Of the
University of Freiburg; DR.. P. Ram
dohr, professor of mineralogy of the
Neurological institute of Aachen; and
DR.. Otakar Matousek, of Charles uni
versity, Prague, Czecho- Slovakia.
The various researches which will be
undertaken will list such prominent
scientists as Prof. Nevin M. Freeman of
the University Of Cincinnati and Ma
tional Research council; Prof. Paul
McClintock Of Princeton and the ILL
noiS state geological survey; DR.. Arthur
Bevan, state geologist of Virginia and
formerly at the University of Illinois;
DR.. Charles D. Walcott, Smithsonian
institution; DR.. G. E. ReSser Of the
United States National museum; DR..
Ira Edwards, Milwaukee museum;
Prof. B. F. Howell of Princeton; Cor
don Knox Bell, Jr., New York city,
graduate of Harvard and graduate stu
dent at Columbia university; DR.. G. H.
Clapp, president, University of Mon
tana; DR.. Francis A. Thomson, preSi-
dent of the Montana School of Mines
and director of the Montana bureau Of
mines and geology; Prof. A. F. Bud