One as Mr. Graham for an unknown reason had failed to answer his letter he wanted to assign to me the Devonian in the Symposion. I refused point blank because of my ad- vanced position in Paleogeography and that I did not wish to be cabled in any way from doing any- things that I chose to do in this matter. I told him that I had 50 paleogeographic maps but did not specify that 35 were strictly American, the other 15 world's projection. I told him that I had 5 Devonian, 5 Silurian and specified some of the latter. Among these the Salina one and that this sea existed only in the east. This brought a rise out of him to the effect that the Eastern Sea extended all the way across the continent and that its absence in this area was due to erosion. He soon saw that we were likely apart as I had assumed from which's remains. This was my greatest objection for not joining his Symposion. He then, after all the cold water I had pour- on him, brought out his 15 G.A. paleogeographic maps for my inspection. Told me that he had