Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-06-29
SCIENTISTS BEGIN
GEOLOGICAL WORK
in This VICINITY
Dr.. Thorn, Head of Research
Expedition, Outlines
Plans of Group

pLANO Tor geological study
in this region during the
summer months were an
nounced by DR.. w. t. Thorn,
Jr., Of Princeton university,
director of the Cooperative
Research expedition, who
arrived in Red Lodge this
week to begin activity at the
exp headquarters
near here.
DR.. Thorn came here from Cody,
Wyo., after reviewing the country
side near Nye and Pryor At Cody,
with DR.. r. M. Field and Prof.
Douglas Johnson of Columbia uni
versity and two students, he con-
Quoted studies of the Shoshone
canyon region. DR.. Field is now in
Yellowstone park to complete his
observations and comparisons of
the region.
About July l, says DR.. Thorn,
Prof. R. T. Chamberlain of the
University of Chicago and Prof.
Walter H. Butcher of the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati are expected to
arrive here. With DIR. Thorn they
will set out for the Black Hills
region of South Dakota, to select
observation points for operations
of the United States Coast and
Geodetic survey. Between Rapid
City, S. D., and Yellowstone park,
a double line of stations will be
laid out, to be followed by the sur
vey this summer.
DR.. Erling Dorf of Princeton.
who recently returned to the I'm
tied States from an expedition in
Central America sponsored by the
Carnegie institute of Washington
d. c., arrived here Saturday. He
left for the Nye vicinity this week
in company with his brother Sven
Dorf and j. S. Vhay, Princeton
students, to collect fossil botanical
specimens.
Early next month DR.. Dorf viii
guide a party of the Princeton
Scott Fund expedition to Beartootf
lake, on a search for more of the
early Devonian specimens that
were discovered in Beartooth butte
last summer. Fossil remains OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of the fish.
es-and lung fishes found in that
region were said to have been the
best specimens ever uncovered.
Prof. G. w. Wilson, Jr., of Van
derbilt university is due in this re-
gion July l. His activity will be
the collection of fossils in the
Beartooth limestone formations
and the teaching of plane table
mapping to student members OF
the group. Prof. J. r. Sandidgs
of Princeton is to collect fossils Of
marine life between the Pryor
mountains and Red Lodge.
DR.. j. w. Peoples of Lehigh uni.
versity, DIR. Harry H. Hess, A. L
Rowland and F. G. Foley, all o.
Princeton, are now making studies
of the chromite deposits on thC
Saltwater. (Dr. Hess last winter
accompanied DR.. Field on an inter
national submarine cruise of scien
fists in the West Indies, studying
the geology Of the Bahamas.)
The Saltwater chromite regior
will be visited in July by Prof
Edward Sampson Of Princeton, ant
Prof. L. C. Grafton of Harvard uni
versity. Professor Sampson als'
will review studies of the He'll
roaring chromite field, where re
search is to be carried on by Ken
meth Wilson of Princeton and DR.
Jack Satterly of Cambridge uni
versity.
Duncan Johnson, student O.
John Hopkins university, and Free
man Foote of Columbia will worl
this summer in the Shoshone can
yon region.
Denald L. Blackstone, Univer
sity of Washington student from
Chinook, with w. Mcintosh, Wash
ington, will continue the work o
mapping the Pryor mountains
started last year by Blackstone.
Manager of the research head
quarters at the summer camp o
DIR. J. G. F. Siegfriedt six mile
south of Red Lodge on Rock creek
will be DIR. John T. Rouse of Ham
ilton college, N. Y, one of tn
Princeton graduate students in thi
area last year.
Undergraduates with the expedi
ton this summer are F. S. Bates
#. N. Spencer, S. X. Fox, Nichola
Thatcher, Guy M. Bryan, Jr., R
C. Doolittle, R. ]. Gillen, all o
Princeton; L. H. Kennedy of tn
University of Montana, and Fri
Butcher Of Cincinnati high school
More are expected to join later.
John Barovich and Ed Homer o