TEACHERS INSURANCE AND ANNUITY ASSOCIATION

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A complete set of the literature of the Association
has been placed in the hands of

Mr. H. J. Ostrander

who has consented to assist the faculty in securing information on our insurance plans. You will find it advantageous to consult this material in addition to that which we are sending you.

## The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association

To one contemplating the purchase of life insurance there are three questions concerning the insuring organization which are of particular significance:

* Is it financially secure?

* Does it issue suitable insurance contracts?

* Is it economical?

That the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association meets the insurance requirements of teachers in all respects suggested by these questions will be evident from the following outline of its advantages.

## Security

The Association is subject to the extremely conservative laws of New York State and to the supervision of its Insurance Department.

Assets amounted to $6,942,328 on December 31, 1925, $6,677,419 of which were invested in high-grade bonds.

After providing for all other liabilities, there remained on December 31, 1925 $1,537,346 representing capital, surplus and contingency reserve, all of which is available for the protection of policyholders, in addition to required reserves.

The active management is in the hands of trained insurance men.

General control over the finances, business policy, and management of the Association is vested in a Board of Trustees eminent in finance, law, insurance, and education. Four of these Trustees are appointed on direct nomination of the policyholders.

One hundred and forty institutions of learning have investigated the Association and are regularly contributing to the purchase of Deferred Annuity contracts for their staffs.

## Insurance Contracts

The Association issues all the standard policy contracts generally available in commercial companies.

In addition it issues contracts specially designed to meet the needs of teachers.

All insurance policies regularly provide that they will remain in full force without further payment of premium in case of permanent and total disability occurring before age sixty-five.

## Economy

Policyholders have paid none of the expenses of operation. These have been met from the income on the original endowment of $1,000,000 contributed by the Carnegie Corporation, and from further funds contributed by that Corporation and by the Carnegie Foundation.

The Association is exempt from Federal taxation as a corporation not for profit.

No agents are employed.

Reduction of rates by substantial dividends has resulted in a net cost to policyholders 18% to 45% below the cost of contracts with commercial companies.

## Other Advantages

The officers of the Association, who are well versed in the insurance problems of teachers, are ready to give disinterested advice to present and prospective policyholders.

The sole purpose of the Association is to provide insurance and annuities for teachers and other officers of educational institutions at the lowest cost consistent with safety.

Trustees

*THOMAS SEWELL ADAMS
Professor, Yale University

*FRANK AYDELOTTE
President, Swarthmore College

HOWARD F. BEEBE
Harris, Forbes & Co.

ROBERT A. FRANKS
Treasurer, Carnegie Corporation

*JAMES W. GLOVER
Professor, University of Michigan

FREDERICK A. GOETZE
Treasurer, Columbia University

SAMUEL S. HALL
Associate Actuary, Mutual Life Insurance Co.

HENRY R. HAYES
Stone & Webster, Inc.

MICHAEL A. MACKENZIE
Professor, University of Toronto

CHARLES F. MITCHELL
President, National City Bank

W. T. OLIVER
Bank of Montreal

HENRY S. PRITCHETT
President, Carnegie Foundation

ELIHU ROOT, JR.
Root, Clark, Howland & Ballantine

*HENRY ROGERS SEAGER
Professor, Columbia University

FRANK A. VANDERLIP
Chairman

GEORGE WHITNEY
J. P. Morgan & Co.

* Nominated by policyholders.

IRVING FISHER
460 PROSPECT STREET
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

July 17, 1928.

Mr. Hans L. Wieland
Anarven Ave.
West Haven, Conn.

My dear Mr. Wieland:

I have your bill for expenses for
the week ending July 14 and am enclosing check
for $52.19 to cover. I am also enclosing a
check for $75 for your salary for the two weeks
ending on that date. *

I do not know whether Professor Fisher
told you that the basis of your salary was to be
$150 for four weeks instead of $150 per month. I
do not believe this will make you angry!

IA.B

*Have combined the checks and an
enclosing only me fr$127.19

In re

CABLE ADDRESS "MUSEOLOGY NEW YORK"

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

77TH STREET AND CENTRAL PARK WEST

NEW YORK

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY

HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, LL.D., D.Sc., CURATOR-IN-CHIEF

1. VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY

WALTER GRANGER, CURATOR OF FOSSIL MAMMALS

BARNUM BROWN, A.B., CURATOR OF FOSSIL REPTILES

CHARLES C. MOOK, PH.D., ASSISTANT CURATOR OF FOSSIL REPTILES

G. G. SIMPSON, PH.D., ASSISTANT CURATOR OF VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY

WILLIAM K. GREGORY, PH.D., RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN PALAEONTOLOGY

CHILDS FRICK, B.S., RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN PALAEONTOLOGY

2. GEOLOGY AND INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY

CHESTER A. REEDS, PH.D., CURATOR

December the fourteenth

Nineteen hundred twenty-eight

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

Dear Dr. Wieland:

Thanks for your letter of December 11th. I have written to Mr. Faber, who sent us the photograph and fragments of the palmetto from the Mancos near Grand Junction, and to-day received some other fragments that he thought possibly belonged to the same tree.

Please examine these specimens for if they are of the same trunk, Mr. Faber will be able to add a considerable length to the base of what you have seen in the photograph. I instructed Mr. Faber to recover the specimen, bring it to his home, and we can get it when I ship in some dinosaur bones from the same locality.

I am also enclosing a copy of his recent letter relating to this specimen, which shows that Mr. Faber has determined it certainly as coming from the Mancos.

I shall hope to see you at the A.A.A.S. meeting.

BB:RNL

Enclosure

COPY

Grand Junction, Colorado. Dec. 3, 1928.

Mr. Barnum Brown
New York City.

Dear Mr. Brown:

I wrote you a letter several days ago, since then I visited the fossil palmetto and looked around a little. The ground was too muddy to do any digging, but I found a lot more pieces - some samples of which I am sending you for identification.

If these prove to be parts of the trunk there is a great quantity of "wood" scattered about. Some of it has been used to make a headwall for a culvert nearby. I found another bulb in place, but only a small part of it is exposed, enough, however, to be sure of its identity, but it appears to be so badly damaged as to be worthless. What I think is the trunk is also very badly broken up - you can tell from the specimens I am sending how fragile it is.

I discovered one thing for sure, however, that is, that the fossil is in place in the MANCOS formation.

BESSIE STUART CAMPBELL

IN HER

STORY OF THE ROSES

TRINITY PARISH HOUSE

NEW HAVEN

MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1931

8:15 O'CLOCK

TICKETS $1.00

BESSIE STUART CAMPBELL

IN HER

STORY OF THE ROSES

TRINITY PARISH HOUSE

NEW HAVEN

8:15 O'CLOCK

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Rapid City, S.D. Sep't. 25,1930.

Dr. G.B. Wieland,
Yale Univ. Museum,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:-

I often think of you and wonder how you are getting
along. I note your articles occasionally in Science and read
them with great interest. Hope you will find it expedient to
publish more often.

I am still blessed with the collecting "bug", guess it has
become chronic and will now last out my allotted time. The
interest increases year by year.

I have spent a considerable portion of my spare time the
past two years in Harding county this state. There is much of
interest in that locality. If I were a young man and a geologist
I would make it my life work to solve the two puzzles of that
locality. That is, remove the question marks from the Arickaree ?
and the Lance, eocene ? .

I am sending under separate cover photos of some of the many
interesting things that you may be interested in that I have come
across.

You will agree with me that the photo of Cycad Valley is most
dissapointing. My alibi will help some, however. I had planned
several times on going up there to take photos that I knew you
wished for. At last on a beautiful clear day I made the trip.
went in at the north end. Carried my heavy plate camera three
miles. Just as I was setting up to begin operations the wind
changed, a heavy pall of smoke descended and the view as you see
it was the result. Fortunately I had taken the fossil log just
a few minutes before the haze thickened. This was two years ago

and I had hoped to get there again but something always intervened
to prevent. Have 'nt given up up and will make the trip again someday.

By the way the fossil stumps on the N. slope of the rim S.
of Elk creek and S.E. of Piedmont have been commercialized. This
locality has been opened up and advertised as the Largest Fossil
Forest in the world. At 50¢ per head many tourists view it with
much satisfaction

I have spent my spare time recently collecting fossil plants
from the Newcastle and from the Fuson. Although it has been stated
by geologists that no fossils had been found in the Fuson in So.
Dak. I have found fossil plants in nearly every outcropping of the Fuson
for 30 miles north and south of Rapid City. In this formation just
at the edge of the city limits of Rapid City, N.W. was stated to
be the basal unit of the Newcastle by Dr. O'Hara. I collected
mollusca from this formation that Dr. Reeside pronounces Fuson
forms. And plants from the same formation at the same locality
are determined as Fuson by Berry. The lithological character of
the strata is the same as the Fuson at other localities. I am
convinced that the plant quarry N.E. of Blackhawk from which I
collected plants, and which you, Dr. Black and myself visited is
Fuson as the plants indicate.

There is a ledge of Newcastle sandstone just at the north edge
of Rapid City outside the Dakota rim and at the top of the Graneros
shale from which I have collected some fine plant specimens. These
as well as the Fuson plants collected by myself last fall and this
summer have been sent to Dr. Berry who has been working on them
this summer. These are the first Newcastle plants to be collected
I believe, and I await Berry's report with interest.

I hope you will find something that will interest you in the above chatter. I know you must have a warm spot in your heart for South Dakota. I hope you will find it convenient to make another trip to Rapid City, soon. I am sure I am in a position to take you to many points that would be of interest to you.

Did you ever come to any conclusion as to the fossil wood, *Testudo* specimens of which you took back with you? I am anxious to learn something of the fossil wood of the Black Hills.

I was inexpressably shocked to read the account in *Science* of the untimely passing of Dr. Black. She seemed so enthusiastic regarding fossil plants and certainly the world has need of specialists interested in palaeobotany.

This letter now resolves itself into a <u>begging letter</u>!
I am writing from time to time a series of articles on the interesting
<u>matter</u> relating to natural science, especially natural history
of So. Dak. that I learn of, and publishing them in our local
paper. I wish to prepare one on the turtles using as a sort of text
your great sea turtle of the Pierre, and am anxious for illustrations.
I wonder if you have a photo of the skeleton of <u>Archelon</u> as mounted
that you would send me for a newspaper cut? Also a little inform-
ation as to <u>Testudo</u> and <u>Stymelys</u> of the Whiteriver. Were they
primarily land forms? Somewhat similar to Testudo of the Galapagos?
I am presuming that the Whiteriver Testudo was the larger of the
two Whiteriver forms, perhaps about 3 ft. in length. Am I correct?

I hope you will not find this letter tiresome and that you
may be able soon to purloin sufficient of your busy minutes to
answer it.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

E. F. GEORGE

C. S. MAST

W. H. ABBITT

HARRY HILL

C. C. SCHMIDT

WM. TUCKER

TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE
LUBBOCK, TEXAS

April 22, 1931

Dr. G.R. Weiland,
Department of Paleobotany,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Dr. Weiland:-

We are very sorry to have let you leave Lubbock without securing from you a statement of your railway expenses that our Science Club had contracted to pay.

I hope you will pardon this neglect on our part, and at this time I am requesting such a statement in order that I may mail you a check to cover the amount.

We enjoyed your visit and hope that you may be with us again some time.

Address:
Harry Hill
Dpt. of Physics,
Tech College,
Lubbock, Texas.

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H. SOPHIE NEWCOMB MEMORIAL COLLEGE

THE TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
NEW ORLEANS

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

Oct. 2, 1931.

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

Dear Dr. Wieland:

You will probably never believe it but I really had expected to write you long ago (nad I really written sooner, I should then probably not have thought of you quite as often as I have !) but I stayed down here too long working and got so completely worn out that when I arrived at my home in Pittsburgh, I could do literally nothing and it has taken till now to recover even part of my well-being.

I am wondering if by any possible chance, you had occasion to recall the occasion of our appearance at the Imperial Institute in London. Certainly, the entire Congress was a wonderful experience. Were you not grieved to learn of the death of Dr. Chipp, one of the secretaries?

The enclosed snapshots have been ready to send off to you for all these many months and at last they are on their way. I hope you will like them - I think some of them very good, particularly the temis one and that of you addressing the "Lampyrids" at the picnic.

Should like to have a word from you when you have time. Do tell me whether you plan to come down at Christmas. There is a great deal more to say but I had better get this off at once. Needless to say, everyone here enjoyed so much your visit with us last Spring. The students were so proud to have gotten to know you even a little bit.

And --- did you or did you not promise to send me with your compliments even the tiniest chip of any old fossil? Sounds rather childish but I hope you don't forget. It wasn't going to be an important one as I recall - just any old one from you to me.

Did the pine cones arrive (but they were all dried up by the time you saw them) and how were the lantern slides?

With kindest personal regards,

Miriam L. Bommard,
Asst. Prof. Biology

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