BOTANICAL LABORATORIES
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Toronto, February 10, 1911

Dear Sir:

Thank you for yours of the 2nd instant and for the separate
ates you were kind enough to send. I am glad to hear that sections
of the Cretaceous *Araucarias* are under way. I am very interested
in your diagnosis of these forms and am glad that some large "modern-
like *Araucarians* are turning up in the Cretaceous. I agree with your
diagnosis, so far as *Euphorbia* are concerned.

Your request for sections of 'Gymnseeds' gave me a start, and
made me wonder if it had been possible that I had been so criminally
negligent as to forget to send some off when you asked for them a few
years ago. I hope you will pardon me if I did, but I can't see how
it is possible, and yet I do sometimes forget things, when I am work-
ing hard, that one could scarcely credit. I can only humbly ask you
pardon, and hope that the sections that go off to-day may be of ser-
vice.

You ask my opinion of the"proembryo" tissue in the Cycade-
cian seed, pl. XXX. It does not look to me like a Gymnosperm pro-
thallium. I could scarcely credit a "prothallium" at such a stage
without a megaspore membrane, which from its very nature would be
well preserved. Why, too, should the nucellus be so reduced if this
is prothallial tissue? With regard to the homology of this tissue
with angiosperm endosperm the case is very different, but my personal
opinion is that it is not homologous. I wonder if the section of
Ginkgo seed may give you any help. If you notice above the embryo
there is a huge suspensorial tissue. If the seed were larger, re-
placing the endosperm completely, perhaps this tissue in trans- section

might present something of the appearance of your proembryo. This
is only a suggestion in case you are dissatisfied with your own inter-
pretation, with which I see no cause for disagreement.

Have you any gross araucarian material? I will gladly send
you part of a cone of Araucaria imbricata, if it would be of service
to you.

Thanking you,

I am, with kind regards,

Professor G. R. Wieland,
Museum, Yale University,
NEW HAVEN, Conn.

Laboratories—65, STARRCLIFFE STREET, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON.

Telegraphic Address:
"LOMAX, Geologist, MOSES GATE."

Railway Station :
MOSES GATE, L. & Y. Ry.

The Lomax
Palæo-Botanical Co., Ltd.

Palæo-Botany,
Petrology,
Geology,
Botanical and
General
Microscopical work,
Also Photo-Micro-
graphy and Lantern
Slide work, from
own or owners'
specimens.

JAMES LOMAX, MANAGER.

May 9th. 1911.

Preparations of
Fossil Coal Plants
showing Vegetative
Structure
a Speciality.

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Dr. G. R. Wieland.
Yale Museum,
New Haven, Conn. U.S.A.

Dear Sir:-

We are in receipt of your letter of the 15th. ulto. for which
we thank you. We are pleased to know that you are keeping the whole of the
collection which we sent you in January last. We send you herewith two
transverse sections of a stem of Heterangium Grieveii, this is one of the
best stems of this species we have ever had for showing structure, it is also
becoming exceedingly rare as all the Burntisland material is now used up and
it is impossible to get any more. In a short time it will be impossible to
supply sections of Heterangium. The price of these two sections os 7/6 each
for which we enclose a bill. We have no sections of Pitys, Cycadoxylon or
Calamopitys otherwise we would have sent you some.

In our last letter we mentioned that we had a good stock of
specimens of other species of fossil plants to those which we have already
supplied you with and we suggested sending you a selection for your museum
As it would probably take 3 or 4 months to get the lot together we should
be glad if you'd would let us know whether we may send them or not.

Yours faithfully,

# Seventh Annual Graduates' Commencement Dinner

TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1911

AT 7:15 P. M.

IN THE UNIVERSITY DINING HALL

This dinner, originally arranged for graduates who are not members of classes holding reunions and for former members of the University, has now become an established function of Commencement week. The evening is entirely informal—social and musical—the intention being to bring together men who might otherwise seldom meet graduates other than those of their own class and time. There are no formal speeches.

The University Glee Club will be present and, as last year, a feature will be a reunion of former Glee Club members. The dinner will be held in the University Dining Hall—the west end being partitioned off for the purpose. Tickets are limited to 400 and will be allotted in order of application.

## PRICE OF DINNER TICKETS, $2.50.

A check for $3.25 covers dinner and ticket to special reserved section on stand at Harvard baseball game on the afternoon of the same day. No game tickets sold without dinner tickets.

Dinner tickets bought may be redeemed at their face value if surrendered to the Committee or to the Yale Alumni Weekly office by 5 o'clock on Saturday, June 17. Game tickets cannot be redeemed.

Full details will be given in the columns of the Yale Alumni Weekly, and inquiries addressed to that office or to the Chairman of the Committee will be promptly answered. Remittances may be sent either to the Weekly or to the Chairman.

The dinner will be over in time to attend the Graduates' Mass Meeting on the Campus at 10:30 P. M.

DAVID DAGGETT, '79, Chairman,
100 Crown Street, New Haven.

WALTER CAMP, '80.

FRANK L. BIGBLOW, '81 S.

LEWIS S. WELCH, '89.

E. R. EMBREE, '06.

Committee on Graduates' Commencement Dinner.

THE NEW YALE REVIEW.

Within the last few years it has become more and more apparent that Yale University has needed a quarterly review of a general literary and scientific character, which should not be technical, in which might be gathered the best of the addresses delivered at the University during the year, the writings of qualified graduates on subjects of current historical, scientific, and literary interest, and in which might be given thorough and expert reviews of books published by Yale graduates. Coincident with the very general realization of this need came the decision of the proprietors of the old *Yale Review* to discontinue the magazine as an economic quarterly in favor of the projected *American Economic Review*. The occasion was therefore deemed a most favorable one for the establishment of a new Yale Review on the foundations of the previous economic quarterly, and the broaching of this proposal immediately gained the most cordial and general University and alumni support. The Yale Publishing Association, owned and conducted by a trust association of representative alumni and the owners and publishers of the *Yale Alumni Weekly*, were active in the project, and to them the old *Yale Review* was given outright by its former owners. Professor Wilbur L. Cross, '85, head of the department of English in the Sheffield Scientific School, was chosen editor in chief and accepted the position, the University Council (consisting of representatives of all departments of the University) voted their approval, the University Committee on Publications and the Yale University Press approved, the University officers and Faculty generally as individuals supported the project, and at the meeting of the Yale Corporation in February, 1911, the following endorsement was voted:

*Voted, to authorize the use of the Yale University name on a quarterly review to succeed the Yale Review and to be issued by the Yale Publishing Association under the editorship of Professor Wilbur L. Cross, in accord with the general plans outlined in Professor Farmam's memorandum of December 30, 1910.*

*Voted, to express the Corporation's approval of the plan for the new Yale University quarterly and to commend the publication to the favorable consideration of the graduates.*

The Yale Publishing Association is making every effort to bring the new *Yale Review* to the attention of the great number of Yale graduates who would naturally desire to cooperate with it in establishing the new magazine, and to that end solicits immediate subscriptions to begin with the first issue of next October. The publishers of the two magazines would desire to make it plain that the *Yale Alumni Weekly* and the *Yale Review* will occupy wholly different fields, the one covering the current news and interests of the University and of the graduates, the other giving publication to the best thought of Yale men and to the best lectures and addresses delivered at Yale during the year. The contents will not be limited to Yale men, however, as it is believed that with Yale as the publishing center, an American review of the high quality of the best English reviews may appropriately be established in New Haven. Graduates of the University may take the *Yale Alumni Weekly* and the *Yale Review* together for five dollars or subscribe to the *Yale Review* alone for three dollars. All correspondence should be addressed to the Yale Publishing Association, 135 Elm Street, New Haven, and contributions for the magazine may be sent to Professor Wilbur L. Cross, Editor of the *Yale Review*, Yale Station, New Haven.

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COMMENCEMENT WEEK PROGRAM, 1911.

Saturday, June 17.—12 M. Special meeting of Alumni Advisory Board, Woodbridge Hall.

8.15 P. M. Beaumont and Fletcher's "Knight of the Burning Pestle," given by the Dramatic Association, on the College Campus.

Sunday, June 18.—10:30 A. M. Baccalaureate Address by the President, Woolsey Hall.

5 P. M. Organ Recital by Professor Jepson, Woolsey Hall.

2 P. M. Annual Meeting of the Yale Foreign Missionary Society, in Dwight Hall, with Report of the Executive Committee, and addresses by Mr. Gage and Dr. Hume, of Changsha.

Monday, June 19.—10 A. M. Meeting of the Alumni Advisory Board, Woodbridge Hall.

10.30 A. M. Class Day Exercises of the Sheffield Scientific School.

12.30 P. M. Annual Dinner of the Yale Law School Alumni Association, University Hall.

1 P. M. Luncheon of the Corporation and the Alumni Advisory Board, Memorial Hall.

2 P. M. Meeting of the Yale Corporation, Woodbridge Hall.

2 P. M. Class Day Exercises of Yale College, with the Class History, Oration, and Poem on the College Campus, followed by planting of the Class Ivy.

2 P. M. Informal meeting of the Association of Class Secretaries, Dwight Hall.

3 P. M. Anniversary Exercises of the Law School, in the Auditorium, Hendrie Hall, with an address to the Graduating Class by Hon. George W. Wickersham, LL.D., Attorney General of the United States.

5 P. M. Address before the Medical School, in College Street Hall, by Prof. Walter B. Cannon, M.D., of Harvard University.

5-7 P. M. Reception in Byers Hall by the Governing Board and the Senior Class of the Sheffield Scientific School.

8.15 P. M. Concert by the Glee, Mandolin, and Banjo Clubs, Woolsey Hall.

10 P. M. Promenade of the Senior Class, Woolsey Hall.

Tuesday, June 20.—10 A. M. Meeting of the Alumni in Alumni Hall, with addresses by the President and representative graduates.

10 A. M.-1 P. M. Polls open in Woodbridge Hall for the election of a member of the Corporation.

3 P. M. Baseball Game, Harvard vs. Yale.

7.15 P. M. Annual Graduates' Commencement dinner, in University Hall.

11 P. M. Mass meeting of Graduates on College Campus.

Wednesday, June 21.—9.45 A. M. Assembly of officers, graduates, candidates for degrees, and invited guests, on the College Campus.

10 A. M. Start of procession for Woolsey Hall.

10.30 A. M. Commencement Exercises, Woolsey Hall.

10.45 P. M. Assembly of Alumni on University Campus.

1 P. M. Dinner of the Alumni in University Hall.

4.30-6.30 P. M. President's Reception, for graduates, their families, and invited guests, in Memorial Hall. The Alumni, including members of the graduating classes, are requested to call for cards of invitation (which are necessary j, at the Library, after Tuesday noon).

Friday, June 30. Boat race, Harvard vs. Yale, at New London, Conn.

The Alumni are requested, on arriving in town, to enter their names in the Alumni Register in the University Library.

A list of available lodgings for Commencement week may be secured at the Secretary's office, Woodbridge Hall.

Graduates and their friends, including ladies, may take their meals at the University Dining Hall.

Owing to the small number of graduates making use of the reduced railroad rates last year, the University has been unable to secure a renewal of the privilege for this spring.

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YALE UNIVERSITY.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF RECORD OF CANDIDATES FOR
FELLOW, 1911.

JOHN VILLIERS FARWELL.

*Personal History.*

Born in Chicago October 16, 1858, son of John Villiers and Emeret (Cooley) Farwell. Married 1884 Ellen Sheldon, daughter of Judge Thomas Drummond of Wheaton, Illinois, a Justice of the United States Circuit Court. Many members of the Farwell family have graduated from Yale University, including two brothers of the candidate: Francis C. Farwell, '82, and Arthur L. Farwell, '84.

*Education and Educational Interests.*

Graduated Lake Forest Academy, 1874, Williston Seminary, 1875, and Yale University, B.A., 1879. At Yale Mr. Farwell won a Berkeley Scholarship Prize and graduated with an Oration stand. After graduation he continued his education by travelling around the world. President of the Board of Trustees of Lake Forest University. President of Chicago Yale Scholarship Trust in 1910.

*Business Career.*

Connected with John V. Farwell & Company of Chicago from 1880, and now President and General Manager of the Company. Director of the National Bank of the Republic, of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, and of the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company of London, England.

*Public Service.*

Mr. Farwell has held the following public offices in Illinois: President First State Pawners' Society, President Board of Trustees of Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago, first President of the Merchants' Club of Chicago, first President of consolidated Commercial and Merchants' Club of Chicago, Chairman, Employers' Committee opposing teamsters' strike in 1905, Member "Chicago Plan Commission," Chairman Committee which reformed Illinois Revenue Laws in 1897, Member Finance Committee Municipal Voters' League of Chicago, one of the organizers of the Legislative Voters' League of Chicago. In 1887 he was Treasurer of the Committee which prosecuted the Cook County boodlers.

Mr. Farwell's candidacy has been supported not only because of his character, ability and generous interest in the University, but on account of the conviction of many graduates that it is important for the University that the West be represented on the Corporation.

CIRCULAR ADVOCATING CANDIDACY OF MR. FARWELL.

Mr. John Villiers Farwell, of Chicago, a graduate of the academic department of the class of 1879, has been nominated to fill the vacancy in the Yale Corporation occasioned by the death of the late Henry Farnam Dimock, whose term of office would have expired in June, 1911. Mr. Farwell's qualifications have already been stated by his friends who advocated his candidacy last year. His broad experience in financial and civic matters, combined with his efficient and active service in religious, educational and institutional work, not only in Chicago but throughout the West, pre-eminently fits him for the office.

Since graduation he has led an active business life, being recognized as a leading figure in financial and business circles, while with this activity he has always maintained a lively interest and participation in municipal and National affairs. His devotion to Yale and interest in her welfare and National influence have been constant and untiring. At an age combining the enthusiasm of youth with the balanced judgment acquired from experience, he will make a most useful member of Yale's governing board.

For many years the Western graduates have felt that it is essential to Yale's pre-eminence as a National university that there should be on the Corporation a Western man, who understands and is in sympathy with Western needs, and who can bring to the deliberations of the Board the feeling and spirit which prevails in that broad section of the country. This desire for representation among the Western Alumni, who are keenly interested in the welfare of our Alma Mater, should and doubtless will find sympathetic response among the Eastern graduates. Yale needs the sympathetic support and hearty co-operation of all her graduates; and the country, even in its farthermost limits, needs the Yale efficiency and Yale spirit which is inculcated in New Haven.

The new rules regulating the election of Alumni Fellows limit to twenty-five the number of signatures to this recommendation.

In the firm belief that Mr. Farwell's election will strengthen Yale and extend the efficiency of her governing board, as well as satisfy the need of the West for representation, we heartily recommend his election.

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AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

Passed, July, 1871; amended, June, 1872.

SECTION 1.—All graduates of the first degree, of five or more years' standing, in any of the departments of Yale College, and all persons who have been admitted to any degree higher than the first in Yale College, whether honorary or in course, may, on the day next preceding the public commencement day of said College, in the year of our Lord 1872, cast their votes, under such regulations as the President and Fellows may prescribe, for six persons to be chosen from among such graduates; and the six persons who shall be found to be elected by a plurality of the votes cast, shall be the Fellows of Yale College in the stead of the six senior senators of the State, and shall have all the rights, duties, and privileges as Fellows which are now by law conferred upon said senators. In case of an equality of votes between two or more candidates, the person who shall hold the said office of Fellow shall be designated by lot from among the persons receiving such equality of votes.

SECTION 2.—The Fellows thus elected shall enroll themselves by lot in six classes, one holding the office for six years, another for five years, another for four years, another for three years, another for two years, and another for one year, eligible for re-election; and every year as a vacancy occurs, all graduates of the first degree, of five or more years' standing in any of the departments of Yale College, and all persons who have been admitted to any degree higher than the first in Yale College, whether honorary or in course, may, upon the day next preceding commencement day, in the manner heretofore prescribed, elect by a plurality of votes a person to fill the vacancy, and hold the office of Fellow for a period of six years, eligible for re-election; and so whenever a vacancy shall occur from death, resignation, or any other cause, such graduates may elect a person at the next commencement to fill the office of Fellow for the remainder of the term in which a vacancy has occurred. The official year of such Fellows shall end with the day next preceding each commencement day.

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, MAY 15, 1911.

SIR :—By the provisions of the foregoing Act of the Legislature of Connecticut, you will be entitled to vote, on the 20th day of June next, for a member of the Corporation of Yale University, to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of the late HENRY FARNAM DIMOCK.

In order to assist the electors in their choices, a call for "nomina-
tions" was made by order of the Corporation in March last, in conse-
quence of which the following graduates have been nominated, by as
many as twenty-five electors, as candidates for election:

Class of 1863, HENRY FARNAM DIMOCK, M.A., New York City.

Class of 1879, JOHN VILLIERS FARWELL, B.A., Chicago, Ill.

Class of 1889, Hon. GIFFORD PINCHOT, LL.D., Washington, D. C.

Mr. Dimock died April 10, 1911, and Mr. Pinchot has requested
that his name be withdrawn as a candidate at this election. The
only nominee remaining is JOHN VILLIERS FARWELL, B.A. 1879, of
Chicago, Ill.

Any graduate of the University, of the first degree, of five or more
years' standing, or any person who has received a higher degree in
this University, is eligible for the office of Fellow, and may be voted
for in this election.

The polls will be open, in the Secretary's Office, Woodbridge Hall,
from 10 A. M. to 1 P. M. on Tuesday, June 20th.

An Official Ballot is enclosed, that any graduate not intending to
cast his vote in person may forward it in season to the undersigned.
If thus forwarded, it is requested that the enclosed sealed envelope
be used, plainly marked with the class, name and department of the
voter, for the purpose of expediting the counting.

Attention is called to the new rules regarding voting, published on
the opposite page, especially to the clauses regarding BALLOTS and
DUPLICATE BALLOTS.

Each graduate can vote but once and he may use only the OFFICIAL
BALLOT forwarded to him by the Secretary of the University.

By order of the Corporation,

ANSON PHELPS STOKES, JR., Secretary,

RULES REGARDING VOTING.

BALLOT—An official ballot shall be prepared by the Secretary of the University and sent to each graduate qualified to vote not later than June 1 of each year, and no votes shall be counted which are not received on this ballot or on a duplicate, as provided below.

The ballot shall contain:

a. The names of all candidates arranged in the order of gradua-
tion, with their residences and the years of graduation, and with
a square opposite each name, and

b. Blank spaces for inserting names of persons not regularly
nominated.

The voter shall express his preference by marking a cross (x) in the
square opposite the name of the candidate for whom he wishes to vote.

The ballot must be signed by the voter, unless it is deposited by him personally in the ballot box on election day.

DUPLICATE BALLOTS—A duplicate ballot may be issued to a voter
only on written or personal application to the Secretary of the Uni-
versity, stating that the original ballot has been lost, mutilated or
destroyed.

ENVELOPES—A ballot enclosed in a sealed envelope endorsed "Ballot for Alumni Fellow" may be mailed to the Secretary of the University, and shall be deposited in the ballot box before the closing of the polls on election day, and shall not be opened until after the polls are closed.

For the convenience of tellers the envelope should be signed by the
voter, with the class and department added, or, in case of the holder
of an honorary degree, the degree and the date thereof. These
envelopes shall be furnished by the Secretary of the University and
sent to each voter with the official ballot, statement and circular, if any.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT—A brief and impartial statement of the quali-
fications of the candidates shall be prepared by the Secretary of the
University, and mailed to each voter with the official ballot. It shall
include a short biography of each nominee, giving his class, depart-
ment, residence, occupation, public record, and such other informa-
tion as may be appropriate and of value in assisting voters to make
intelligent choice.

CIRCULARS—In addition to the official statement, reasons in behalf
of any candidate, not exceeding four hundred words, and signed by
not more than twenty-five sponsors, may be submitted to the Secretary
of the University not later than May 15, for editing by the Alumni
Advisory Board, the material to be printed in one circular and mailed
to the voters, together with the official statement, official ballot and
voting envelope.

WITHDRAWALS—The official ballot shall contain only the names of
those nominees who announce their acceptance in writing to the Sec-
retary of the University within fifteen days after the date of the mailing
of the official notification. The official notification shall include the
names of all nominees. Candidates shall not withdraw after the
ballots have been sent out to the voters.

POLLS—The polls shall close at 1 P. M. on the day next preceding
Commencement Day, and ballots shall not be counted prior to such
closing. Tellers appointed by the Corporation shall then proceed to
count the votes, and the result shall be publicly announced at the
Alumni dinner on Commencement Day. All ballots shall be preserved
by the Secretary of the University for a period of two months after the
announcement of the result.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION:

ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY, LL.D., President.

His Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, ex-officio.

His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, ex-officio.

Rev. JOSEPH ANDERSON, D.D., Woodmont, Conn.

Rev. EDWIN POND PARKER, D.D., Hartford, Conn.

Rev. JOSEPH HOPKINS TWICHELL, M.A., Hartford, Conn.

Rev. NEWMAN SMYTH, D.D., New Haven, Conn.

Rev. JAMES WESLEY COOPER, D.D., New York City.

PAYSON MERRILL, LL.B., M.A., New York City.

Hon. ELLI WHITNEY, M.A., New Haven, Conn. (Term expires June, 1915.)

HENRY BRADFORD SARGENT, M.A., New Haven, Conn. (Term expires June, 1914.)

CHARLES HOPKINS CLARK, M.A., Hartford, Conn.

Rev. NEWELL MEEKER CALHOUN, M.A., Orange, Conn.

OTTO TREMONT BANNARD, LL.B., M.A., New York City. (Term expires June, 1916.)

ALFRED LAWRENCE RIPLEY, M.A., Boston, Mass. (Term expires June, 1915.)

Hon. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, LL.D., Washington, D. C. (Term expires June, 1912.)

CLARENCE HILL KELSEY, M.A., New York City.

Rev. CHARLES EDWARD JEFFERSON, D.D., New York City.

DIRECTOR: J. G. AGUILERA.

DIRECCIÓN:
6° DEL GIPRES, 1976.

México, 23 de Noviembre de 1911.

Sr. Dr. G. R. Wieland.

Yale Museum.

New Haven, Conn.

Muy Señor mío:

El Sr. Ministro de Fomento me ha manifestado los deseos que tiene de que cuanto antes se publique la memoria de Ud. relativa á las plantas fósiles de Tlaxiaco. Por lo mismo yo le suplico me remita lo más pronto que le sea posible su colección de láminas ya arreglada definitivamente, ó me diga si la colección que tengo aquí puede servir para mandar hacer desde luego las láminas á Werner & Winter. Como esta casa tiene mucho trabajo y lo hace con relativa lentitud, quiero que proceda con anticipación á ejecutar las láminas de Ud. y así podamos tenerlas con oportunidad.

Igualmente le suplico me remita después el texto para que se vaya procediendo á su imprestión.

En espera de su contestación, me repito de Ud.
atto. afmo. S. S.

Editor in Chief
L. E. Atkinson

Business Staff:
C. D. Swift, Chief
J. O. Keller
H. R. Braggill
T. M. Harvis

The 1913 La Vie

The Pennsylvania State College Annual
Published by the Junior Class

State College, Pennsylvania

December 15, 1911.

Mr. George R. Wieland, Ph. D.,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sirs:-

This year the Penn State La Vie, the annual publication of the Junior class, is planning to revote a section to the Alumni who have been successful, provided that the Alumni concerned are willing to co-operate individually. The plan is as follows:- the Alumni, especially those prominent in their respective pursuits, reflect great credit upon their Alma Mater; we believe that we can best illustrate their work and the work of the college in the past by photographs; and therefore we propose to use the portrait of the Alumnus, beside which will appear a photograph of his most important accomplishment, accompanied by a brief and concise account of his professional career. You graduated here in the course in Chemistry, we believe, and have since become a Paleontologist, which of course, is aside from chemistry. Nevertheless, our intention is to picture the work which some of our Alumni are doing at the present time, and so, since you are a well known Paleontologist, and prominent in your line of work, we feel that you would be doing Penn State a great favor.

Editor in Chief
E. B. Atkinson

The 1913 La Vie

Business Staff:
C. D. Swift, Chief
J. O. Kieler
H. R. Kraybill
C. M. Harris

State College, Pennsylvania

and would reflect great credit upon her if you would
be willing to co-operate in this matter. Specifically,
we desire a photograph of yourself, one of your scien-
tific discoveries ( a photograph of it ), or something
which you deem of even greater importance. We feel
sure that you have made such discoveries in your line
of work as would be an honor to any man, or which,
as the work of an Alumnus, will reveal the kind of
stuff of which Penn State men are made, - and we trust
that you will give this matter your prompt attention.
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy in the mat-
ter, and hoping to hear from you in the near future,
I am

DIRECTOR: J. G. AGUILERA

DIRECCIÓN

6º DEL CIPRES, 176.

México, 2 de Marzo de 1912.

Sr. Dr. G. R. Wieland.

Yale Museum.

New Haven, Conn.

Muy señor mío:

Acabo de recibir la carta de Ud. de 24 de Febrero
próximo pasado y en contestación le participo que tuve el gusto
de recibir las páginas del original que me remitió y del cual le
acuse recibo con fecha 6 del mismo mes.

El Sr. Díaz Lozano está concluyendo ya la traduc-
ción de esas páginas; espero pues recibir la continuación.

Me repito de Ud. atto. afme. S. S.

Chicago, March 10, 13.

Dear Wieland:

Your letter of a month ago made me smile all over, in memory of the Obawth8 we had in the Burlington hotel. However, I would very much like to go back there again for a summer. But I can get neither the time nor the means! Twenty eight years now I have been teaching in universities, and in all that time, from all causes I have failed in my duties less than three months; I have never had a sabbatical year nor leave of absence- I had no golden spoon in my mouth when I entered this world- only a pewter one. Anxd when I get through teaching I'll not want to go.

Please don't think that I have forgotten you in not yet sending a copy of my 'Permian Vertebrates' The publishers gave me but ten copies, and I have been straining my resources each month on private copies, and yours will come by-and by. I rather guess that I have been the chief if not about the only customer for the work with the publishers so far! And I have not the remotest idea that they will get rich on the book!

I have intended to spend the summer, or at least July and August, in New Haven, However, recent events are confusing things. It is probable that my Assistant, Mr. Miller, may take a year's leave of absence, to go on an expedition for the American Museum, beginning in May; and I don't want to skip a year in the Permian beds. But, I shall be in New Haven at least six weeks, probably in June and July.

Our family is all well, but we are much reduced in numbers now- my youngest daughter left yesterday, for school in Kansas.

DIRECTOR: J. G. AGUILERA.

DIRECCIÓN:
6º DEL CIPRES, 176.

México, 15 de Marzo de 1912.

Sr. Dr. G. R. Wieland.

Yale Museum.
New Haven, Conn.

Muy Señor mío:

Tengo el gusto de acusar á Ud. recibo de otras
cinco páginas de su estudio acerca de las Cycadeas.

Va á hacerse la traducción de estas páginas y
con la de las anteriores la enviaré á Ud. para que la re-
vise como desea. Espero que me seguirá enviando su origi-
nal para que pronto se termine la traducción y se pueda pro-
ceder á imprimir el Boletín.

Werner y Winter recibieron ya las fotografías y
han procedido á la ejecución de las láminas; enviarán á Ud.
directamente una prueba.

Me repetí de Ud. ato. afm. S. S.

DIRECTOR: J. G. AGUILERA.

DIRECCIÓN:
G° DEL CIPRES, 170.

México, 9 de Abril de 1913.

Sr. Dr. G. R. Wieland.

Yale Museum,
New Haven, Conn.

Muy señor mío:

Tengo el gusto de acusar á Ud. recibo de los originales IX,X,XI y XII de su estudio sobre las plantas fósiles de Tlaxiaco, por los cuales le doy las gracias más expensivas.

El Sr. Diaz Lozano continúa haciendo la traducción
la cual será revisada y puesta en limpio lo más pronto posible.

Recordará Ud. que el VII aún no lo ha enviado.

Me repito de Ud. afín. atto. S. S.

P. D. - Acabo de recibir XIII y XIV.

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SOMETHING OF A "MIGHTY HUNTER"
HIMSELF

—Rogers in New York Herald

California). In other words, Wilson, with 41 per cent. of the popular vote, obtains 83 per cent. of the electoral vote; and Roosevelt and Taft together receive 51 per cent. of the popular vote, but only about 16 per cent. of the electoral vote. This disparity between the popular and electoral

A CARTOON WITHOUT WORDS

—Minor in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

vote is, of course, due to the fact that a plurality of 100 in New York State, for instance, carries with it the 45 electoral votes of that State just as surely as a plurality of 500,000 would carry them. No one is entitled to complain. It is the rule of our political game, and a very necessary rule if we are to preserve the balance of power as adjusted in the beginning between the large and small States.

Putting Everything "Up to"
the Voters,

BUT something beside electing Wilson and Marshall was done on election day. In fact there were more kinds of things done than in any other election that ever happened. Four States—Kansas, Arizona, Michigan and Oregon—were added to the woman suffrage column. West Virginia adopted a Prohibition amendment to her constitution by a majority of more than sixty thousand, not a half-dozen counties voting against it. This, following upon recent defeats for State Prohibition in Florida, Missouri, Oregon, Texas and Vermont and the narrow escape from defeat in Maine, comes as a surprise. Arizona voted for recall of judges and for an amendment (by an "overwhelming majority") permitting the State to engage in industrial enterprizes. Oregon voted on thirty-three constitutional amendments, including equal suffrage and the single tax, in addition to voting for 177 candidates for State offices. Colorado voted on thirty-two legislative enactments and constitutional amendments submitted under the initiative and referendum law. Governors were elected in twenty-nine States and congressmen were elected everywhere. In twenty-seven States legislatures were elected which will have the duty of choosing United States senators. It was "election day" all right. But it is a notable thing that with all this ferment in the land, involving more or less directly constitutional changes of fundamental importance, about two million less votes than were expected were cast. Perhaps, with the long fight before conventions and the triangular contest after conventions, the American people were overtrained and "went stale" by the time the battle culminated. Even business failed to show any signs of excitement. "The presidential election," says Bradstreet's, "has come and gone with the barest possible apparent effect

THE TARIFF AS A WITCHES' CAULDRON

607

term for President was a part of that preparation. In any event, Mr. Bryan is not expected to go hunting in South Africa at this particular juncture.

The Tariff as a Witches' Cauldron.

UT of this possibility of Democratic dissensions, the Republicans are deriving some consolation. "When the time comes for the organization of the Senate," says the Baltimore *American* (Rep.), with ill-concealed glee, "the Democrats will have the time of their lives." It likens the tariff question to the witches' cauldron in "Macbeth," and says: "Back of the Democratic tariff pot will be the importunate and ubiquitous Bryan. He will stand there with his own tariff propositions in his hands and will seek to con-

editorially holds that the question of how the tariff is to be revized has already been answered in the bills passed in the recent sessions of Congress, which, had President Taft not vetoed them, would have reduced the metals schedule 33 per cent. and the wool schedules from 90 to 48 per cent., and made similar reductions in the cotton schedule. The *Times* sees no reason why, following the plan of revizion already adopted by a Democratic House, the coming extra session of Congress, which Mr. Wilson has announced that he will call not later than April 15th, should not be able to finish its work of tariff revizion within three months and do so without haste and without slipshod work. But the New York *Journal of Commerce* (Ind.) scoffs at this. "It is futile," it says, "to talk about resuscitating the dead tariff bills of the Sixty-second Congress. They were framed and passed mainly for political effect and without any expectation that they would receive the approval of the President.

Roosevelt Vote and Taft Vote Compared.

WHEN it comes to acrid speculation on what the future holds in store for us politically, no other subject is so fruitful at this time as that of the relative standing of the Republican

THE DEMOCRAT WHO WILL GOVERN MICHIGAN

Woodbridge Ferris is his name and, like the President-elect, he is an educator. After various efforts teaching young ideas to shoot, he founded Ferris Institute, of which he is president, and to use up his spare time became head of a savings bank in Big Rapids.

Will he control the tariff work of his associates. Will he control the tariff work of the upper house? If he does, then there will be an irreparable quarrel as the result." A special to the New York *Times* from Boston told of a conference of six Democratic congressmen-elect in Massachusetts who held a conference November 15th and agreed to oppoze any reduction in the tariff on boots and shoes. The *Times*

ONCE A PRINTER'S DEVIL

Ohio joined the long list of Republican States that elected Democratic governors. James M. Cox was a farm-boy, a printer's devil, a reporter, editor, publisher, soldier and congressman.

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party and the Progressive party in the days
that are to be. Naturally the speculation
is in each case colored by the partisan
glasses through which the speculator looks
at the returns. Those returns furnish
ample material for disputation. The Pro-
gressive vote for President leads the Re-
publican vote by half a million. The un-
official estimates of the popular vote by
States are very unreliable; but taking them
as the best obtainable until the official re-
turns appear, Roosevelt seems to lead Taft
in 31 States, and Taft leads Roosevelt in
17 States. But of the States in which
Roosevelt leads, at least nine are hopelessly
Democratic States of the South. Taking
the 30 States which gave a Republican plu-
rality four years ago as a basis, it appears
that Roosevelt this year leads Taft in 16 of
these States, and Taft leads Roosevelt in
14. The Roosevelt States have an electoral
vote of 203; the Taft States an electoral
vote of 156. This gives Roosevelt a lead
in the normal Republican States of 47 elec-
toral votes over Taft. In any way that it
may be figured, therefore, the Roosevelt
vote considerably surpasses the Taft vote.

Small Showing of Progressive Party in
Congressional and State Elections.

B
UT in estimating the strategic posi-
tions of the Progressive party and
the Republican party in the contest
that seems certain to ensue for
precedence, other things must be taken into
account beside the presidential vote. In
the matter of Congress, for instance, the
Progressives, acting as a separate party,
succeeded in electing only about 16 mem-
bers, while the number accredited to the
Republican party number 122. There is
no doubt that a large number of these Re-
publican congressmen are in harmony with
the Progressive principles. Senator Dixon
evidently refers to this fact when he says
that "it is my belief that we"—the Pro-
gressives—"have elected as many members
to the next House as the Republicans."
But the fact remains that as a separate
party, distinct from the Republican party,
the Progressives have elected but 16 con-
gressmen—perhaps less. The Senate shows
a similar situation. The number of sen-
ators who will be accredited to the Pro-
gressive party will be, apparently, only six.
To the Republican party will be accredited
38. When it comes to the election of gov-
ernors, it does not appear that the Pro-

gressive party, as a distinct organization,
elected a single governor. The Republi-
cans, with the aid of Progressive votes,
elected at least nine. Much the same sort
of disparity exists in the election of legis-
lators. In New York State, for instance,
the Progressives elected but four assembly-
men and one State senator; the Republi-
cans elected 42 assemblymen and 17 sen-
ators. In Illinois the Progressives have done
better; but even there, where the Roose-
velt vote was far in excess of the Taft
vote, the Progressive party elected but one
member of the upper house and 23 mem-
bers of the lower house, while the Repub-
licans elected 23 members of the upper and
67 members of the lower house. With over
four million votes cast for its presidential
candidate, therefore, the Progressive party
seems to have acquired very little of the
power that goes with the actual election
of candidates to office.

Is the Progressive Party the
"Official Minority Party"?

THE question of which party, Pro-
gressives or Republicans, shall lead
the other is of much more than
academic interest. Upon the an-
swer depends, in nearly all States, the mi-
nority representation on election boards.
Senator Dixon claimed on the second day
after the election that as a result of the
voting the Progressive party will now be-
come either the majority party or the offi-
cial minority party "in nearly every State
in the Union." But J. B. Reynolds, secre-
tary of the national Republican committee,
derides this assertion. The State laws, he
says, fix the status of parties, and fix it
according to the votes for governor. In
the States where a governor was chosen,
the Progressive candidates ran third. "So
far from being one of the two big parties,"
says Mr. Reynolds, "legally recognized in
election machinery, the Bull Moose is just
where it started: it has California." "It
is true," remarks the New York World,
analyzing the situation, "that Mr. Roose-
velt received more votes than Mr. Taft;
but this shows what the Progressives did
for Mr. Roosevelt, not what they did for
anybody else. It is the remnant of the Re-
publican and not the advance guard of the
Progressive party which is to be found in
the minority in Congress and in the State
governments. The number of bolting Pro-
gressives who have been elected to office

WILL THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SURVIVE!

609

"EXCUSE ME, THEODORE, BUT WOULD YOU PLEASE MOVE OVER JUST A LITTLE?"

—Donahey in Cleveland Plain Dealer

of any kind is hardly worth consideration. Where men calling themselves Progressives have triumphed at all, principally in the West, it has been as Republicans." The Republican split, the *World* goes on to say, came simply on the question of Roosevelt or Taft as leader. There is hardly another question, it thinks, on which the two wings cannot come into substantial agreement just as in the past. "If Mr. Roosevelt and his friends are to have a political future we shall look for it very confidently within the ranks of the Republican party."

Will the Republican Party Survive?

N ANSWERING the question, Can the Republican party survive? the *Springfield Republican* (Ind.) comes to the conclusion that the party is "in a perilous condition" and it must have leadership adequate to its emergency. It recognizes, however, the party's strong advantage in being, despite the Roosevelt vote, the chief minority party in Congress and in the State legislatures. It also has a history and a tradition that should help it to survive. Its mere name

is an asset, and to suppose that it can be destroyed as easily as the Federalist and Whig parties were to "show a very slight comprehension of the relative positions those three parties have held in American history." The same paper notes as very significant what it calls Mr. Roosevelt's "complete failure" in the South. "No southern State has voted for Mr. Roosevelt; no southern State has even wavered. And the border States, where race feeling is by no means weak, were more strongly Democratic than before in twenty years." The Philadelphia *Ledger* thinks that all the Progressive party really achieved was to enable the Democrats to administer a crushing defeat to the Republicans. It is now "more likely to fall into innocuous desuetude than it is to absorb or displace the historic Republican party." The N. Y. *Evening Post* says the Republican party has undoubtedly suffered a terrible blow; but there is no convincing reason it can see why it should not recover, just as the Democratic party recovered after the Greeley campaign, when it was spoken of as "a putrescent corpse."

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"The Burial of the Republican Party."

N THE other hand, the Bull Moose journals are seemingly enthusiastic over the glowing future that they discern for their party. The Kansas City Star is confident that even before the Democrats come into power the differences in the party between the reactionaries and progressives will show themselves and that in another four years the Democratic progressives will be ready to break away and join the new party. The N. Y. Press thinks the Progressive party leaders have no choice in the matter of building a permanent organization. "They have received an unmistakable mandate from the people so to do. Their duty to assume the important functions of the party in opposition is just as important as the duty of the Democratic party to assume the functions of government. It is simply a matter of discharging the responsibilities impozed upon a party by the voters." The Kansas City Times declares that in the next election "there will be no Republican party." It reviews the death of the Federalist party, the Whig party and the Populist party, and notes that Taft receives this year fewer electoral votes than díd the candidate of the expiring Federalists, the collapsing Whigs or the fated Populists. The Progressive party has, it believes, already "seen the burial of the Republican party" and is itself "the party of the future." Henry Watterson, in the Louisville Courier Journal, sees the same tragic end of the Republican party but sees it much more vividly: "The Whigs had hopes to the last. The Republicans can have none. But they made bold to stand against the world. To-day there is none so poor to do them reverence. With its armor on, instinct with life, its lines of battle, its flags and trophies yet visible, the G. O. P. sinks as a great wall of stone and iron before a tornado into a heap of shapeless ruins. It will never rise again."

How Europe Viewed Our
Presidential Campaign.

HE real political struggle in the United States has been between the conservation of powerful vested interests and the struggling aspirations of a people nourished upon principles of freedom and of progress which they find themselves unable to realize in practice. This sentence, almost verbatim

from the London Nation, fairly reflects European press comment, with exceptions here and there, upon the fight for the Presidency. The trouble with this country, according to the London Times, is that our political institutions have crystallized behind forms that have lost much of their meaning. The French papers, especially advanced organs like the Lanterne and Action, are amazed at what is deemed radicalism in the United States. The most advanced suggestions of Senator La Follette are to these organs of social discontent political ideals which have been outworn in France for generations. The German dailies of radical tendency, like the Frankfurter Zeitung, insist that even if the United States be somewhat in the rear of the best economic thought of the time, "the circumstance is accidental." America is bewildered by the multitude of claims upon her attention. Progress in one direction may halt because advancing in so many others.

Obstacles That Will Confront Wilson.

THE prominence of Theodore Roosevelt as the central figure in the presidential struggle has not been lessened, so far as Europe is concerned, by the campaign of Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt has lost some of his fervid admirers, like the Indépendance Belge (Brussels), and even the London Spectator seems half inclined to regard the Colonel with disillusioned eyes. Yet nothing can take him from the center of the stage with the European audience. If Wilson wants "a national policy which shall place the United States in the front of political civilization instead of in the rear," to quote the London Nation, he will have to discard much traditional Democratic doctrine. It says:

"The real difficulty of Radical Democracy lies in the sentiments and traditions of State rights which still cling round the party. Theo even Conservative Democrats, like Mr. Cleveland, make large concessions to the centralizing forces of national life, any proposal to cede to the Federal authority concrete powers of legislation, administration, or taxation hitherto wielded by the several States is liable to arouse strong opposition.... In the course of two generations, the land of freedom and of equal opportunities has been converted into a land of economic privileges, conferred and sustained by political arts."

The Paleontological Society.

Washington, D. C., December 1, 1913.

Dear Sir:

Arrangements for the Princeton meeting of the Paleontological Society were announced in the circular of the Geological Society of America sent to all members. As our Society has been invited to attend the general meeting of the Geological Society of America on Wednesday morning, December 31, our own meeting will be opened this year at 2.30 P. M. on the same day. The major portion of the afternoon will be devoted to a symposium on "The Close of the Cretaceous and Opening of Eocene Time in North America", with the introduction by Professor H. F. Osborn, and with Messrs. Knowlton, Stanton, Barnum Brown and Sinclair presenting various phases of the subject.

The list of candidates for election this year is as follows:

FRITZ BERCKHEIMER, Curator of Paleontology, Columbia University, New York City.

JOHN T. DONEGHY, Graduate student, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

CLARENCE E. GORDON, Assistant Professor of Zoology and Geology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Massachusetts.

MARJORIE O'CONNELL, Instructor in Geology, Adelphi College, Brooklyn, New York.

EARL L. PACKARD, Graduate student, 1522 Grove Street, Berkeley, California.

CHESTER STOCK, 492 Seventh Street, San Francisco, California.

FRANCIS M. VAN TUYL, Assistant in Paleontology, Columbia University, New York City.

CLARENCE A. WARING, geologist with Barber Asphalt Co., Box 162, Mayfield, California.

R. S. BASSLER, Secretary.

Chicago, May 17 '14

Dear Wieland. I thank you for the pictures, which wereduly received.

Mrs. Williston, Hyla and my some left this
morning for New Haven, in the hope that it will
help tp restore ' Hylas health. If I do not
hear very good reports from them in a few days, I
expect to go on next Friday to stay for three
weeks and will seeyou then sometime.

PLEASE STATE BINDING DESIRED

LINCOLN HISTORY SOCIETY

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I am interested in your announcement of the new

"LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN" BY
IDA M. TARSELL

Please send me, express prepaid, a complete set of four volumes in binding. If after inspection I desire to retain the volumes, I will send you $1.00 promptly and further pay you each month thereafter as follows:

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LINCOLN IN 1864

LINCOLN AT McCLELLAN'S HEADQUARTERS

GEN'L. GEO. B. McCLELLAN

ILLUSTRATIONS

Partial List

Photo of H. C. Whitney

Lincoln Letter about Lincoln-
Douglas Debate

Lincoln in 1857

Lincoln-Douglas Meeting at Gales-
burg

Lincoln in 1858

Stephen A. Douglas

Lincoln in 1858

Lincoln in 1859

Lincoln, 1860, at time of Cooper
Union Speech

Lincoln in 1860

Chair occupied by Chairman at
Republican Convention of 1860

Wigwam, Chicago

William H. Seward

Salmon P. Chase

Edward Bates

Simon Cameron

Jesse W. Fell

Horace Greeley

Life Mask of Lincoln

Lincoln in 1860

Lincoln in 1860

Lincoln's Home in Springfield

Lincoln's Chair and Table

Sofa from Lincoln Home in Spring-
field

Sarah Bush Lincoln

Lincoln, Pinkerton, and McCler-
nand

Bust of Lincoln

Lincoln's Inaugural Address

Lincoln Early in '61

Gen. George B. McClellan

Willie Lincoln, third son of Pres-
ident Lincoln

Lincoln in 1861, Age 52

Lincoln in the Cabinet Room,
White House

A Noble Record of a Noble Man

But no mere description can give more than a vague impres-
sion of what the Tarbell History really is; inspection and reading
alone can convey an accurate idea of its lateness, fulness, reliability,
pictorial completeness and unequaled interest, not alone as a
biography but as a history.

In a word, you feel and know that in TARBELL'S LIFE
OF LINCOLN you have in most attractive form all that is
necessary to an accurate and intimate knowledge of him whom
Lowell justly styles "the first American".

After reading any volume or even chapter you will not only
say: "What a man was Lincoln!" but you will add: "And
what a noble and inspiring record of his life and times!"

The Books Themselves

Paper and Type

The paper for the text is of bangalore weave, specially selected for
this work, and that for the illustrations of the finest quality, thus permitting
of perfect reproduction. The type is new, clear, and of ample size, the
margins most generous.

Cloth Binding

Four volumes, bound in special woven, rich, red English silk cloth, with gilt tops, silk head-bands, and the lettering on the side and back stamped in gold. A feature of this binding is a blind stamped medallion bust of Lincoln on the front cover of each book, with facsimile signature in gold. No pains have been spared to make them a most attractive addition to the library. Price per set, $15.00.

Three-Quarter Leather Binding

Four de luxe volumes, bound in three-quarter dark blue levant, im-
ported English cloth sides, gold tops, fancy silk head-bands, titles and
ornaments stamped on back in pure gold, beautiful, artistic and durable.
Price per set, $20.00.

LINCOLN HISTORY SOCIETY

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Partial List

Reading Emancipation Proclama-
tion

Lincoln at McClellan's Head-
quarters, Antietam

General Jos. Hooker

H. W. Halleck

Grand Review, Army of Potomac

Gen. Grant in 1863

Lincoln in Camp

Facsimile of Check

Note to Secretary of War

Lincoln and Soldier

Lincoln and Tad

Lincoln in 1863

Gettysburg Address

Lincoln in 1863 or '64

Lincoln and Tad in 1864

Legend scratched on window pane
by J. Wilkes Booth

Abraham Lincoln—New Photo

Gen. Sherman

Lincoln Receiving Visitors in
White House

Equestrian Statue of Lincoln

Lincoln in 1864—Brady

Lincoln in 1864 (hitherto unpublished)

Last Portrait of Lincoln

Facsimile of program used by Pres-
ident Lincoln on the night of his
assassination

Last Bit of Writing done by Lincoln

Chair in which Lincoln was Shot

House in Washington, D. C. in
which Lincoln Died

Watching Dying President

Funeral Car

Facsimile of Reward for Lincoln's
Assassination

Capture of J. Wilkes Booth

SEC'Y OF STATE SEWARD

GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

E. H. SELLARDS, PH. D., STATE GEOLOGIST

TALLAHASSEE,

Dec. 19, 1914.

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

Dear Wieland:-

Your letter is received. In regard to the tusks,
while elephant and mastodon remains are fairly common we have
really found very few tusks. At present I have in the collection
only one tip of a tusk of Mastodon (Trilophodon) floridanus. This,
however, has been photographed for reproduction as it shows the
band of enamel which characterizes the form.

Among the fragments that I sent you, one, No. 2167,
I thought to be probably a fragment of the rib of Basilosaurus.
If after looking at this fragment you think it may be a tusk I
can send you the whole specimen, which includes a section of a rib
or tusk about three inches in diameter and three or four inches
long. The deposits from which it was taken are residual in character
and include a mixture of fossils, including some from the Eocene
and some from Upper Miocene or Lower Pliocene.

I am interested to know that *Codonotheca* is being used
in Shrimers text books.

Can you suggest to me where I can get a small and not
very expensive machine for cutting silicified specimens? I have, for
instance, some horse teeth and other fossils that fail to show
structure owing to the fact that sand adheres firmly to the face of
the tooth. Some of these can be determined, I believe, by cutting
across section and polishing the face. Of course I could get the
same result by polishing the same grinding surface, but I would

Sociedad Geológica Mexicana.

6ª. DEL CIPRES 176,

México, Diciembre de 1914.

Estimado colega:

Esta Sociedad celebrará su Asamblea General (Sesión de Invierne) del año en curso, el 30 del presente a las 5.30 p. m. en su domicilie.

## Programa.

### I.—Presentación de los siguientes trabajos:

- "Las aguas de las plantas de cianuración", por el Prof. Juan S. Agraz.

- "La alteración de los fierros meteóricos", por el Prof. Juan S. Agraz y Dr. E. Wittich.

- "Descripción de un seismógrafo proyectado y construido por el Sr. D. Ramón Vélez", por el Ing. Heriberto Camacho.

- "Diatomeas fósiles del subsuelo del Lago de Texcoco", por Enrique Díaz Lozano.

- "Nota preliminar sobre el sistema de fallas del Distrito Minero de Tlalpujahua, E. de Michoacán", por el Ing. Teodoro Flores.

- "Las Cuevas" en la corriente de basalto del Pedregal de San Angel", por el Dr. E. Wittich.

- "Algunos datos sobre nucleos endurecidos de forma cónica en depósitos cuaternarios de México", por el Dr. Paul Waitz.

- "Una veta de marcasita en la andesita de Monte Alto, E. de México", por el Dr. Paul Waitz.

- "Estudio químico e industrial de unas arcillas procedentes de la Hacienda de Gloria, Altamira, Tam.", por José C. Zárate.

### II.—Informe del Tesorero de la Sociedad.

### III.—Elección de la Mesa Directiva según el Artículo XIII de los Estatutos.

Suplicándole encarecidamente tenga la bondad de asistir a dicha sesión, me repito de Ud. afm. alto. S. S.

El Secretario,

Paul Waitz.