Austin, Monday Jan. 4-1926 Set up at the usual hour and was at Lellard's office before nine; he had not yet arrived. When he came we talked on the situation, and at eleven Professor Dimonds arrived. It was agreed [illegible] give the lectures between 7 and 9 P.M. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The three laboratory hours each week I will have to arrange with the students eatern. Professor Dimonds has a fine office on the second story of the entire city and the Capitol building. In the adjacent room is the Depart. mental Library and on the same floor the Paleontological Laboratory. So I will make this my headquarters. Then Professor Dimonds introduced me to President Hylam, a pleasant man of about threescore, and a graduate student of Hadley's, was Professor of Economics and Chief of Rail- roading. It was soon my appearance that I am to be capitalized for all I can write the University and especially the Geological Dep. That needs a crucial to show the natural resources of the state and to know all the