graduate of Cornell. Also Mr. Gerald M. Porter who is the forum man. Was the second man to cut in the month, joining in 1920. Is a graduate of Toronto, but has been in the game in the south over for several years. A fine fellow, but apparently not doing in paleontology and stratigraphy. The library is now located in the new State Bank Building down about 1/2 of the basement. Annual Appropriation was $24,000. Have a little museum, but not yet open to the public. Talked at length about my ideas of the evolu- tion of the Great Indies, but upon the whole got little help from Banta or his staff. Apparently there is nothing in the geology of the state that helps to discern what is the substrature of Florida. Thinking the matter over alone by myself it may be that the west continental slope of Florida was faulted one. The drop off into the Gulf is very rapid. If this interpre- tation is correct then Florida is a remnant of the ancient plate with the Gulf dropped in on the east something like 10,000 feet. The northern Bahamas may then be a part of this plate, with the southern Bahamas once probably submarine volcanoes. Dr. Banta called me in the evening