Field Notebook: Texas 1924, 1925
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March 1-1926 Monday. GEOLOGIST TO LECTURE Professor Charles Schuchert of Yale university faculty and one of the leading geologists of the world, who is a visiting professor at the University of Texas during the winter term, will deliver a series of five illustrated lectures on the history of the earth, during the first week of March, Dr. E. H. Sellards, associate director of the bureau of economic geology, announced Wednesday. In his lectures, Professor Schuchert will trace development of the earth through the peopling of the lands, the age of giant reptiles, to the dawning of the present scenery and life. The lectures will be delivered in room five of K hall at 7:30 o'clock on the nights of March 1, [illegible], 3, 4, 5 and 8. SPEAKS ON NIAGARA Niagara Falls is receding up the river at the rate of five miles per year and soon newly weds in Chicago will have to pay less railroad fare to make the honeymoon trip, according ot Prof. Charles Schuchert of the Yale university faculty, who delivered the first of five lectures on the history of the earth in K hall on the University of Texas campus Monday night. Professor Schuchert told of the wearing away of the Niagara cliff to illustrate the general wearing of the earth's surface by water. His subject of the first lecture was "Sculpturing the Earth's Surface with Air and Water." Professor Schuchert will speak again tonight at 7:30 in the same building on the campus. His lectures are illustrated. March 1, 1926