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New Haven, Conn. Oct 13-1922
Left at 5.12 P.M. and got to N.Y. City
at 8.30 the train being late over 30 minutes.
Put up at the Commodore and had to
dinner Doctor Stroganow. Retired 11 P.M.
New York City, Oct 14, 1922. Saturday.
Left on the 8.30 A.M. train for Princeton
to spend the day with Dr. B. F. Morse
to see his Cambrian fossils collected last
summer at St. Albans and north to Stirkate.
Had him first tell me his idea of the
sequence, but found he had no very clear view.
He has however plotted a good deal of what
he saw, and his interpretation of this one
to Keith might to straighten out matters
considerably.
Besides I then explained to him the sequence
as det. by Keith, and I feel he had no Mid.
Cambrian, but in the end it appears that he
actually has such, confirming Edom's
collection.
Edom is now dead, and Beecroft just
has the fossils he listed. Edom's collectioni