Field Notebook: Maine, New Hampshire 1925
Page 103
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Seattle, March 10 - Thursday Prepared for my talk at 11 A.M. on Dinosaurs and Research. It was at the Fa- culty Club of Washington University and finished at noon. Present about 20 Instructors only Professors and all doing research work. Then had lunch with some left off them. After lunch had Professorn Deuren tell me some of his South American work. His collections take trials with the Jurassic and Cretaceous and Upper Cretaceous. East of the Andes erect in B.R., Ar- gentina south for Hvoorides. All is done in de- tail and all is or recorded into the actual conditions of the field that no pencil and note can grasping. He was seven years in doing the work, and most of the time had four field assistants all college graduates. All was paid for by the Standard Oil Co., and a detailed stratigraphic re- port is in their hands. The paleontology and its re- action on the stratigraphy is still like done, and it cost him more than five years to do. Then he has a Cretaceous collection made