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Austin March 25, 1974, Tuesday.
After the morning until the paleontologist Whitney, a graduate of Cornell, Dr. Roy Simmons. Whitney is at work on a list of species of echinids. Thanks the Cretaceous may have from 100 to 200 species of echinids all told. As for much new material among the mollusca.
The type specimens of the Oremble being are now in his charge.
Whitney has a strong mechanical bent and has a home made and very effective camera for photographing small things, especially the forams. He has been interested in them since 1917. Hadden began to use them in submarine work about 4 years ago.
In the afternoon rested and got ready for the evening lecture on the deep-sea maps of the North American Continent.
The lecture came off to an audience