Friday Dec. 30 - 1927. Nashville Visited the Capitol Building and was much interested in the ref-nature of the local limestone used for hygroan growth and algae precipitation, this example has been made of this fact. Found again the rotors collected by him in 1886, and saw Webatella borealis, Orthorychula linngi and endless quantities of hygroans, see small note-book. Then met Ferremann on the street and together we called at the office of the State Geologist Orren Pond. He was not quite a part of geologists shining from the local stratigraphy. The Association is now mostly gone, and the debut institution its normal appearance. At 4.30 met again with the Com. or Prize Award. Finally we had 14 papers in the contest. In about one hour we had eliminated eleven of them leaving only valuable paper in physics by Davisson of the Bell Tel. Co. Lab.; another one of x-rays acting on the genes of the chromosomes, and Manwfields paper on the Geology of I.E.Idaho. Since the latter worked dry well established lines, and because the three fieldists of the Com. wanted the Prize awarded to them lecture, it soon became evident that neither the best paper by Davisson, nor Manwfields one through omograph