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"3088"
Monday May 30 - 1910
New Haven, Connecticut.
Started for Washington D.C at 12.15
P.M. to meet Ulrich and a ten days
discussion to determine the Siluro-
Devonian boundary for the Appalachian
region. June 4 -> 90
Took a room at the Metropolitan.
Tuesday May 31 - 910.
Washington, D.C.
Ulrich is now finishing his memoir on the
American Paleozoic. Expects to send it to the B.
J. A next month but it will be July 15th.
His theoretic views are rapidly changing to
extreme ones and it seems to me in the wrong
direction. The following are some of these:
(1) Evolution of faunas takes place in the
oceanic areas and hardly any of it in the Continental
seas. In the latter seas are the faunas and
species are "ready made" migrants from the
oceanic areas,