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March 16, 1926 Tuesday. Austin.
Got up at 6 A.M. and with Professor Whitney and Mr. King was off in the Univ. car at 7 A.M. to be gone all day to see the Glen Rose of southern Blanco and north-central Comal counties.
Crossed the Colorado River and then S.W. to Cedar Valley and Dipping Spring (Hays Co.?), Then are passed Lone Man Cliff and the Twin Sisters Mt. These are typical Buttes, Then we crossed the Blanco River and on the south bank went into a German farmers land to see a ref of rudistids (Schthyodenticles) All are carbonate of lime pseudomorphs; elongate test shells up to 8 inches long and up to 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Something like this [diagram] The walls are very thick and fluted and the cone filled beneath the body chamber with conacre floors. The layer is 2 to 3 feet thick filled with the shells but hardly thick enough to call it a ref. Took no rock with them since it meant one rock than Donald Carey, we dugim in at the top [illegible] On the slope down to Blanco River, near the base of the Glen Rose collected some flattened but good Porocystis.
Leaving the German farmers home we began collecting at about 140 feet above the base of the Glen Rose in limy clay beds, about 2 miles S. B. of the