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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

February 18, 1936

Mr. George R. Wieland
West Haven, Connecticut

Dear "Fiji":

I have been a friend and associate of Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas for the past twenty-five years, having been a member of Pi Deuteron chapter of Phi Gamma Delta with him, and because of this friendship and my high esteem and respect for him, I have been taking time from my business and trying to help bring about his election to the Presidency of the United States.

I have never taken an active part in politics, but I do feel that it is my duty at this time to see that we nominate and elect a second Phi Gam to the White House in Washington, especially so when the Phi Gam is so outstanding as is Alfred M. Landon.

It is not my purpose to try to present him as other than a man of the people, fully capable of discharging the duties of President with dignity and honor. He is stable, earnest and honest. He is progressive in the sense that he is tremendously interested in trying to find new and better ways of doing things, and he is conservative in that he is prudent and extremely careful, and has a deeply ingrained abhorrence of recklessness and waste.

It is my hope that you will be interested in seeing Governor Landon nominated, and if so I should thank you to write me so that our efforts may be coordinated. Any suggestions from you would certainly be appreciated.

There are many "Fijis" throughout the United States who do not even know that he is a potential nominee. Of course you understand he is not at this time a candidate, but it is hoped by some of his friends that he might be persuaded, as a patriotic duty, to assume this tremendous responsibility.

I am enclosing herewith a page taken from the rotogravure section of the Kansas City Star on Governor Landon. If you concur with me, or even if you do not, I would welcome a letter from you giving me your ideas.

Perge!

CES:CG
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HENCE I FAVOR DRASTIC MEASURES, I am a DEMOCRAT, and I will again
vote for a DEMOCRATIC nominee for the PRESIDENCY unless I can
have assurance of a cold blooded attack on the NATIONAL DEBT. Nor
do I intend to be fooled by any specious promises or mere superfici-
ial persiflage.
THANKING YOU, I remain YOURS,

ARTICLE VI, Clause I of the CONSTITUTION should have been
made originally to read:

But the Federal Government while it may enter into
affair of Business for the common good not readily car
carried on through private effort or source, must balance it
its annual budget, and may not issue bonds or otherwise
enter into or incur debt. The revenues, the tariffs, taxes
or other sources of income must be so levied as to meet
annual expenditures. Unusual expenditures should always be
provided for by means of SINKING FUNDS. In case of WAR a
MORATORIUM should be declared and all citizens male and
female in health are to be drafted. Food and hospitil-
zation must be made available for all, and all subsequent
bonuses or pensions are held wrong in principle and are
specifically forbidden.

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see, in gemstone beauty, flowers and foliage and mature seed cones that tell much
and leave us to wonder about a course of chemical change that could end in such a
record. In fact, unless the chemist can repeat those changes in his laboratory he
cannot know fuller finality in the formation of the oolites, the cherts, and the
quartzose rocks generally; and he may even miss some organic relations between iron,
calcium, and silicon.

"I have estimated that adequate excavation on the cycad level, followed by
development of material and its housing in a field Museum, a scientific shrine,
built in utter simplicity and taste to stand a thousand long years, may cost
$65,000. The plan would fixedly be to house and to illustrate and display only
the material in situ, so as to reach a sheer poetic simplicity. There would be
reproduced in its actual surroundings a landscape of the past which would again
become green and move with life as it did so far back in dinosaur times.

"When to take up an educational subject of deepest interest must depend
firstly on available funds, and those funds must certainly in turn depend on the
wealth of a country and the thrift and intelligence of its citizens. In our own
country, accordingly, we find it difficult to believe that when it comes to sheer
realities, the things that are surely worth while as seen through the years, we
may claim either poverty, or the inability to act. Or in other words if we fail
to do the fine things we'll find ourselves much poorer. Therefore I urge that the
Department of Parks and Monuments neither lose nor delay a single further hour
in the development of the Fossil Cycad National Monument."

X.X.X.

[1937 Apr ?]

Under separate cover data on Fossil Cycad National Monument Bill. Note especially letter of Governor Pinchot and my letter to Hon. Francis Case as well as my blue pencil notes all in themselves suggesting enough basis for Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut helping this Black Hills project through as of National, even international concern whether the Interior Department plus the state of South Dakota sees the point or not.

MARKED COPY

FIELD MUSEUM NEWS

April, 1937

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## LECTURES FOR ADULTS CONTINUE IN APRIL

The spring course of free illustrated lectures for adults will continue on Saturday afternoons in April. The four remaining lectures include some of the most interesting in the series, and will be given by well-known scientists and explorers. All are illustrated with motion pictures or stereopticon slides. The lectures are given in the James Simpson Theatre of the Museum, and begin at 3 P.M. Following are the dates, subjects and speakers:

April 3—Burma, Land of the Golden Pagodas

Mr. H. C. Ostrander, Jersey City, New Jersey

April 10—The Kingdom of the Moors

Captain Carl von Hoffman, New York

April 17—Hunting with a Microphone (with sound effects)

Dr. Arthur A. Allen, Cornell University

April 24—Plant Life in the Caribbean

Dr. William Seifriz, Philadelphia

No tickets are necessary for admission to these lectures. A section of the Theatre is reserved for Members of the Museum, each of whom is entitled to two reserved seats on request. Requests for these seats may be made by telephone or in writing to the Museum, in advance of the lecture, and seats will be held in the Member's name until 3 o'clock on the day of the lecture. Members may obtain seats in the reserved section also by presentation of their membership cards to the Theatre attendant before 3 o'clock on the lecture day, even though no advance reservation has been made. All reserved seats not claimed by 3 o'clock will be available to the general public.

It is regretted that unavoidable circumstances caused the disappointment of Members attending the lecture presented on March 13. Some came expecting to hear Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the Smithsonian Institution, lecture on "Exploring the Atlantic's Greatest Deep"; others expected to hear Lieutenant-Commander George O. Noville, U.S.N., lecture on "Fifteen Years of Aerial Exploration," as announced in the newspapers after Dr. Bartsch had been compelled to cancel his engagement because of an unexpected call to duties in connection with an expedition. On the morning of the lecture day the Museum was notified that Lieutenant-Commander Noville was in the hospital due to sudden illness. The Museum was forced therefore, without public announcement, to substitute Mr. H. Canfield Cook who gave his lecture "Amazing Finland."

## A RARE FOSSIL PLANT

BY B. E. DAUGLgren

Chief Curator, Department of Botany

A well preserved fossil cycad stem has recently been received by Field Museum, and is esteemed as a specimen of great botanical interest. In general shape it resembles either an old-fashioned straw bee-hive, or a barrel-cactus of moderate dimensions. Its surface is marked by triangular pits interrupted by rounded rosette-like areas with smaller concentric markings. About two feet in height and sixteen inches in diameter, the petrified cycad weighs nearly 500 pounds.

For lack of a better descriptive term, the specimen is called a fossil cycad or, more correctly, cycadoid stem, but it represents much more of the original plant than the mere trunk. In fact, it consists of the entire above-ground part of the plant, minus only the leaves which extended in all direc-

tions but have been lost in the course of time or were shed before the process of fossilization set in. The triangular pits mark their points of attachment, and represent the somewhat eroded external surface of the armor of leaf-bases which is a fairly constant feature of living cycads.

The rosette-shaped areas represent flower buds surrounded by whorls of small bracts. The flowers of this ancient cycad thus grew among the leafbases directly from the stem, and at any place on the trunk instead of appearing only at the tip or summit of the stem as is the case in their extant relatives.

The structure of these flower buds has been the subject of thorough investigation by Professor G. R. Wieland of Yale, and on the basis of his findings and with his cooperation a model of a fossil cycad flower was prepared in the Museum some years ago. With this model at hand, and

Fossil Cycad Trunk

A rare specimen, recently acquired by the Museum, under inspection by Mr. Emil Sella of the Department of Botany. Visible on the exterior are remains of old leaf bases and well developed flower buds.

the fossil trunk, together with such information as exists of the leaves of this group of Mesozoic plants, it becomes possible to reconstruct the entire cycad as it must have appeared when it grew some 120,000,000 years ago during the lower Cretaceous period.

The Museum specimen was collected in 1893, and was long a part of the collection of Black Hills cycads at the University of Iowa. It was obtained in exchange through the interest of Mr. Fred C. Thompson and Dean G. F. Kay. The site which once yielded these fossils, and where others may still be buried, has since been set aside as Cycad National Monument.

## SPECIAL NOTICE

Members of the Museum who have changed residences or plan to do so are urged to notify the Museum of their new addresses, so that FIELD MUSEUM NEWS and other communications may reach them promptly.

Members going away during the summer, who desire Museum matter sent to their temporary addresses, may have this service by notifying the Museum.

## APRIL GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS

Conducted tours of exhibits, under the guidance of staff lecturers, are made every afternoon at 3 P.M., except Saturdays, Sundays, and certain holidays. Following is the schedule of subjects and dates for April:

Thursday, April 1—General Tour; Friday—Races of Mankind.

Week beginning April 5: Monday—China and Tibet; Tuesday—Animal Life in the Chicago Area; Wednesday—Hall of Plant Life; Thursday—General Tour; Friday—Men of the Stone Age in the Old World.

Week beginning April 12: Monday—Crystals and Gems; Tuesday—Animals of Plains and Deserts; Wednesday—The Palaeoindian; Thursday—General Tour; Friday—William Tell; Friday—Birds of the Chicago Area.

Week beginning April 19: Monday—Fishes, Amphibians and reptiles; Tuesday—Palms and Corals; Wednesday—Story of Coal; Thursday—General Tour; Friday—Birds of the Chicago Area.

Week beginning April 26: Monday—Ancient Burials; Tuesday—Carl Akley and His Work; Wednesday—Hall of Prehistoric Life; Thursday—General Tour; Friday—Fibers and Their Uses.

Persons wishing to participate should apply at North Entrance. Tours are free and no gratuities are to be proffered. A new schedule will appear each month in FIELD MUSEUM NEWS. Guide-lecturers' services for special tours by parties of ten or more are available free of charge by arrangement with the Director a week in advance.

## Gifts to the Museum

Following is a list of some of the principal gifts received during the last month:

From Raymond K. Smith—2 clay objects: one a figurine, the other a small temple model, Mexico; from Museo Nacional—73 herbarium specimens, Costa Rica; from University of Texas—136 herbarium specimens, Texas and Mexico; from Rev. Brother Elias—168 herbarium specimens, Colombia; from B. A. Krufoff—aforked stem of Astrarynium jasuar; from Irving W. Knobloch—53 herbarium specimens, Mexico; from Dr. Cesar Vargas C.—38 herbarium specimens, Peru; from Dan P. Mumbroe—18 specimens of concretions and concretionary coloring, Montana; from E. M. Cole— one specimen of annularia, Iowa; from G. W. Wharton a fossil plant in shale, Oregon; from Edwin C. Galbreath—tibia and fibula of Castoroides and dorsal vertebra of Oboivine, Illinois; from Paul O. McGrew—lower jaws of Mesokippus bairdi, Nebraska; from William Gallahan— a plesiosaur vertebra and 2 gizzard stones, Kansas; from Elmer L. Rembold—a code, Kentucky; from Polish-American Chamber of Commerce—a white stork's nest and accessories, 5 white stork skins, and 8 magpies, Poland; from Leslie Wheeler—95 birds of prey and 22 other bird skins, Brazil, Belgian Congo, Chile, and Peru; from Albert A. Conner—ward eight, J. F. McManus, C. P. Meek, Mrs. Paul S. Moyer, John Romaszkievicz, Hugo H. Rosenfeld, Milton C. Rosenhow, Mrs. Dave Rothstein, Hiram A. Rowland, Samuel D. Ruby, Earle Schultz, Mrs. Otto Schultz, Mrs. Lawrence W. Scudder, John A. Signor, E. M. Siebel, Miss Alma May Stewart, Willard J. Stier, Dr. Austin H. Thurber, Claude Towne, Carl W. Von Helmolt, Wondell Walker, Edgar C. Webster, Edward S. Well.

## NEW MEMBERS

The following persons were elected to membership in Field Museum during the period from February 16 to March 15:

### Associate Members

Seymour E. Clonick, Fred B. Hamm, George W. Overton, Leon C. Ince, Carl H. True, Mrs. Flora VanArtsdale, Bernard W. Vinissky.

### Annual Members

Mrs. Laura T. C. Alford, J. A. Anderson, W. C. Banes, James M. Barker, Frank A. Benson, Walter R. Bothof, Otto Frederick Carl, William Cliron, Miss Mildred H. Croft, Mrs. C. H. Dean, William J. Dempsey, Mrs. it. W. Hawkins, Vincent E. Haely, Frank A. Lang, John H. Lindeman, Miss Madeline Magerstadt, Arthur H. Mayer, Edwin T. Maynard, Mrs. W. E. McCollum, Marion Everett M. Wright, J. F. McManus, C. P. Meek, Mrs. Paul S. Moyer, John Romaszkievicz, Hugo H. Rosenfeld, Milton C. Rosenhow, Mrs. Dave Rothstein, Hiram A. Rowland, Samuel D. Ruby, Earle Schultz, Mrs. Otto Schultz, Mrs. Lawrence W. Scudder, John A. Signor, E. M. Siebel, Miss Alma May Stewart, Willard J. Stier, Dr. Austin H. Thurber, Claude Towne, Carl W. Von Helmolt, Wondell Walker, Edgar C. Webster, Edward S. Well.

Some of the flowers that bloom in spring on prairies and in woods of the Chicago region are represented by exhibits in the Hall of Plant Life (Hall 29).

PRINTED BY FIELD MUSEUM PRESS

OFFICE OF

The American Journal of Science.

New Haven, Conn. April 15, 1937

Dr. George R. Wieland
Osborn Botanical Laboratory

Dear Dr. Wieland:

It was impossible for me to find time
to write to Mr. Darrah before I left for
Washington. There is so much that must be
taken care of before one takes a leave of
absence even for a short period of time.
I am sorry that I have added to the delay
which seems to inevitable in the case of
this book review. I am now back at my
desk and have to-day written a letter to Mr.
Darrah. I enclose a copy of it. I shall
let you know ehn I receive a reply.

The next time I go to Washington, I shall
surely let you know before I go. I spent much
time in the new building of the Natural History
Museum and enjoyed it immensely. That is the one
on B and 10th Streets on one side of the mall.
Tell me more about this National Cycad Monument.
I shall read what you have written for Science
as soon as I can get the magazine from Dunham
Laboratory Reading Room.

April 21, 1937
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Dr. Wieland,

That review written by you published in the Nov. 1908 issue of the Journal is more like what I hoped Darrah's review would be like. I thought he would arouse interest and enthusiasm from the readers, so that they would be eager to see the book, and also I thought it would be a more detailed review, covering the subject in an interesting way, instead of picking out little things. But he is young and he goes to Harvard. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Thank you for sending me the reprints and the copy of Science. If I can get a copy of the Register, I will send you the article written there.

INDIAN SCIENCE CONGRESS 1938

JUBILEE SESSION

Calcutta Jan. 3-9.

The University
Lucknow

31st May 1937.

Professor G.R.Wieland,

New Haven (Conn.), U.S.A.

Dear Professor Wieland,

The Jubilee Session of the Indian Science Congress
will be held at Calcutta during the week January 3-9, 1938.

On behalf of the Sectional Committee for Botany I write
to say that we shall feel greatly honoured by your presence and
especially by your participation in the proceedings of the Sec-
tion. Apart from the reading of papers, several joint discussions
on subjects of general interest will be held.

Jointly with the Section of Geology there will be a
discussion on "Discrepancies in the chronological testimony of
fossil plants and animals." This is a problem which has troubled
geologists and palaeontologists in India because sometimes the
evidence of plant and animal fossils is conflicting. As a rule
it has been assumed (at least in India) that the evidence of
fossil animals should prevail, particularly if they were marine
species. Latterly the position seems to have changed to some
extent. But the whole question deserves to be discussed in a
free atmosphere and on as wide a basis as possible. In the
first place it is important to consider whether the reported
discrepancies between the testimony of plants and animals are
real or only based upon erroneous determinations of species or
erroneous estimates of their age values.

As it is possible that this problem has presented
itself to you in relation to specific instances in your knowledge
or experience, your views would be of the very greatest value.
I therefore request you to kindly let me know whether you will
be able to give us the benefit of your participation.

Even if you should find it impossible to attend the
meeting we should be very grateful for a brief statement of your
views, if possible so as to reach here by the 1st of October.
Particularly valuable would be references to actual cases of
conflicting evidence which have come to your notice.

Looking forward to the pleasure of welcoming you.

I am

President, Section of Botany.

Dallas, Texas.

January 14, 1939.

Jefferson Hotel.

Professor G. R. Wieland,
Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
Yale University, N
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Professor Wieland:

One of the most pleasant recollections of the lat
Geological Society of America meeting in New York was the
pleasure of having met you and this also expresses the
sentiments of my daughter.

Since my return I have received the most welcome
bundle of your several interesting writings and read
each of them with pleasure. It so happens that I am
writing much these days on the early history of Northwest
Texas which naturally embraces the story of the Second
Dragoons commanded by Colonel Albert Sydney Johnson which
was sent out from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, to north-
west Texas shortly after the annexation of Texas to protect
their frontier from the Indians. The little item that you
mentioned of his having carried a copy of Lylell's text-
book of geology in his saddle bags is most interesting. I
wonder if you could spare time to tell me where you got
the same?

In my monograph on the Texas Cretaceous published as
Part 7 of the 21st Annual of the Texas Report there is a
list of plants from the Glen Rose formation which I had
collected and was sent by Professor Lester F. Ward to
Professor Fontain at the University of Virginia who iden-
tified them. Had you observed that a cycad is mentioned
among them?

Wieland-2

I also told you at the meeting that I had seen another
cycad speciment of which you had not heard. This was from
Montague county and is in the collection of Mr. Joe Benton
of Nocona, Montague County. If you so desire and will write
him I am quite sure that he will lend or donate the same to
you if it may interest you. Mention my name to him if you
choose to write him. I have told him about you and your
interest in the plants.

Again assuring you of my appreciation of your work
and of the pleasure of having had this brief visit with
you in person, I remain

W. M. K. & R. W. Williamson,
Attorneys at Law,
Huntingdon, Pa.
W. MCK. WILLIAMSON, RICHARD W. WILLIAMSON,

January 30th, 1939

Dear Wieland,

I ought to have written you long ago, but after Commencement I seemed to be tied up pretty much with my own work and on the 9th of September, I went to the Blair Hospital in Huntingdon where I was really very sick. I was in that hospital for 4 weeks and 4 days under the constant care of a good physician and 3 nurses, all of whom attended me daily.

I was out and looked after some business that had accumulated while I was in the hospital, but did not come to my office. I looked after a lot of matters and had 3 or 4 divorce hearings in my own home and then went to the Sanitarium at Clifton Springs, New York where I was 6 weeks and 1 day. I left there on the 24th of December and went down to Ithaca, N. Y., where I spent the night and Christmas with my nephew, Capt. Williamson, who is an instructor in Artillery at Cornell University. He, like his late father, is a graduate of West Point. I only have one niece and one nephew; all my family have passed on. My niece and her husband were there also.

The next day, the 26th, I drove home and have been in my office an hour and a half in the morning and the same in the afternoon. Tomorrow night, January 31st, I am going out to Hot Springs, Arkansas where I hope to find warmer weather and get the treatment and baths which will ultimately relieve me of my arthritis, with which I was afflicted when I left the Blair Hospital.

The photograph which I am sending you, reading from left to right, is as follows: Mrs. Sidney Krumrine; Mrs. John K. Furst; "Your Uncle Dudley"; Mrs. M. S. McDonnell (Mae Patterson); Mrs. Ed Dunkle; Harry Greenwood and Mrs. Rothrock. Back of her and going from left to right is Charlie Girvin; Frank Orbin; Milton McDonnell; Colonel Rothrock; Ed Dunkle; Sid Krumrine; a niece of John K. Furst; and John K. Furst.

We had a very wonderful time. We all had reservations at the Nittany Lion Inn and for you fellows who have not been back in late years, I desire to state that it is a very cozy, fine, swanky Hotel with a splendid atmosphere. We had our Banquet in one of the smaller rooms of the Hotel on Saturday evening, and on Sunday we had a final Banquet down at a Hotel at Woodward where we had a nice chicken and waffle dinner and disbanded to our respective homes.

January 30th, 1939

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I think our Class, considering that we have been out for
45 years, was remarkable in that it had so many of the fellows who
are still living and who could get back. Orbin doesn't have a wife;
and your "Uncle Dudley" doesn't have one. Girvin's wife is very
hard-of-hearing and she stopped in Lock Haven. Greenwood was not
accompanied by his wife. It was certainly a fine affair.

This letter is to be mailed to you after the photographs
arrive from State College, for which I have sent today. I am not
sending to the ex-Members of the Class, but to you, Charles R. Fay,
John Foster, John B. Greer, R. B. Mattern, F. F. Weld, Col. F. A.
Dale, and Joseph J. Kintner, all of whom were in our Class at least
a year in College.

RWW/G

2-8-39 If you care to write Mr. Williamson his address is:

Army & Navy General Hospital
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

WILBUR L. CROSS

Office of The Yale Review
Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, New Haven

February 15, 1939.

To Former Students of the Yale Graduate School:

As Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School I am deeply interested in its success and therefore in the success of the Alumni Fund. For forty-eight years the Fund has been a most important factor in Yale's progress.

Like all universities, Yale depends largely upon unrestricted funds. They permit new developments, educational experiments, additions to the faculty until sufficient permanent endowment is received for these purposes. Without these gifts Yale would stagnate. With their assistance Yale has attained its present eminence. For its needs the University leans heavily, year after year, upon the Alumni Fund.

You, I feel sure, share my pride in the forward march of the Graduate School. No one who has studied at Yale can fail to be moved by its history. The first institution in the United States to confer the degree of Ph.D., the Graduate School today stands in the forefront of institutions of higher learning.

Yale's unrestricted funds have helped to keep it alive. Naturally it could not be made self-supporting without closing its doors to many for whom its benefits are primarily intended and thus without barring from the teaching profession many of its brightest students.

The life of the Graduate School is intertwined with the life of the whole University. From the undergraduate departments it draws many of its students; and to those departments, in turn, go many of its ablest teachers. Yale is a well-knit unit: one part flourishes equally with all the others.

President Seymour, as you know, is keenly aware of this. At the Alumni Fund Class Agents' dinner the other evening he said: "Although our first duty is to prepare youth for citizenship by bringing them into contact with the learning of the past and showing them how to apply it to the present, we must at the same time continue to develop our Graduate School and professional schools; we must build up our Library, our museums, and our collections; we must protect the heritage we shall hand on to the generations of tomorrow."

It is most fitting, in this second year of President Seymour's administration, for Graduate School Alumni to show their approval of his policies. Increasing thousands of contributions to the Alumni Fund are a tangible and powerful expression of loyalty to Yale. They are a potent factor in maintaining the present high morale of the faculty.

Will you not, as soon as you are able, send me your check for whatever amount—whether large or small—you can afford? That is the underlying theory of the Alumni Fund—each giving according to his means.

Your name on the list of contributors will do much to encourage the President and the faculty.

Believe me most cordially yours,

Agent for the Graduate School.

At a critical time in our field work as threatening to lapse entirely, I met Cross on the street, and settled the point in one minute and a half.

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
WASHINGTON

ADDRESS ONLY
THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

March 4, 1939.

Dr. G. R. Wieland,
Osborn Botanical Laboratories,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Doctor Wieland:

It appears probable that I shall be in New York City on either
March 9th or 10th. I should like to know if you will be in your
laboratory in New Haven on either or both of these days. If so, I
would appreciate an opportunity of visiting you in order that we
might discuss ways and means of completing the study of the fossil
cycad specimens so that a publication will become available for the
use of interested visitors.

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C.

April 11, 1939.

Dr. G. R. Wieland
Osborn Botanical Laboratory
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Dr. Wieland

I understand the point of view expressed in your note of April 6th, but I am sorry that at present we seem to have no appropriate means of issuing the pamphlet which you propose. I am sure it would prove to be an interesting statement.

We have a number of proposed news releases under consideration, but it is very doubtful if any attempt will be made to prepare such information for printing before Dr. Bunker's successor is appointed.

Sincerely yours

W. M. Gilbert
Administrative Secretary

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Dr. G. R. Wieland
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.

June 16, 1939

My dear Dr. Wieland:

In connection with a publication now in manuscript, I am preparing a bibliography of Early Man in North America. Your papers which have so far been recorded are those shown on the enclosed list. It has not been possible to make the bibliography as full as one might wish. However, I hope to include all papers on reported association of man with extinct animals and some other closely related papers. I shall appreciate it very much if you will check these titles, and if you think of others of your papers that should be included, call my attention to them.

In the index to literature which accompanies the paper, I am citing you as having contributed to a discussion of the following localities:

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If this citation is incomplete or incorrect, I shall be glad to have corrections. It is desirable also to give the museum or institution in which the collections described are preserved and I will appreciate it if you will check the location of the following collections to which your papers relate:

Most localities appear in the literature under a well established name. However, if the names used here do not seem appropriate, please suggest a more appropriate name for the locality in question. All of your papers listed above are available to me except:

If you have published any papers on this subject later than those listed, I shall be glad to have copies or notice of place of publication.

We are now excavating a locality in Bee County, Texas, which yields artifacts and extinct animals.

I shall send you a copy of the paper now in manuscript when published, and shall be glad to receive papers on this and related subjects.

EHS:jw