Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
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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,