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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Meeting 330
Cosmos Club

Wednesday, January 22, 1919

Edward Oscar Ulrich, President          Raymond Smith Bassler, Meeting Secretary

Walter Curran MendenhallUSGS—GK Gilbert: biographical outlines.

Charles Doolittle Walcott†—Smithsonian Institution (Secretary)—Gilbert in his administrative relations.

Frederick Leslie RansomeUSGS—Gilbert as the student and expounder of geologic structure.

Herbert E. GregoryYale University—Gilbert, the physiographer and explorer.

William Clinton AldenUSGS—Gilbert, the glaciologist.

Robert Simpson WoodwardCarnegie Institution—Gilbert, the physicist and mathematician.

John Henry RenshaweUSGS—Gilbert, the topographer.

† GSW Founder


Attendance: 60
Notes: Gilbert Memorial
Minutes not available.
Published account of meeting appears in: J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 9, 288-298

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