Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
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Vancouver March 14 - Monday Williams called for me at 9.20 A.M. and went off to the University. He has a bad throat and finds it painful to speak. Dr D volunteered to take his class in Hist. Bot, and the subject in course was the Crustaceans. Spoke 45 min. Then Williams, Ashfield and I took up the paleographic maps. Ashfield is especially much preoccupied with the geology of British Columbia. He wanted to extend the Cordilleran physiognomic line to proceed more its western trend line to the north and then to Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte's. Finally showed him that there was another and independent physiognomic line to the coast, and he finally agreed to this. He holds there was all through the Pal. Mesogric and up to the Alencian a Brideland and from which the sediment of the western physiognomic line gets its clay and sediments. This is another bridleland he holds must have existed outside (South) of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska on a physiognomic inside of it. Later in the afternoon prepared to fire a