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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Meeting 558
Cosmos Club

Wednesday, January 12, 1938

Hugh Dinsmore Miser, President          Joseph W. Greig, Meeting Secretary

Lloyd Williams Stephenson and Watson Hiner Monroe—USGS—Stratigraphy of the upper Cretaceous of Mississippi and Alabama.

Aubrey Keith Brewer—US Department of Agriculture—Age of the Earth as determined by the radioactivity of the potassium in rhubidium.

Arthur Coe Spencer and Kiguma Jack Murata—USGS—Base exchange as a factor in estimating the age of the ocean (Best Paper 1938).

Attendance: 113
Minutes not available.
Published account of meeting appears in: J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 28, 414-424

View all talks from 1938 Go to Meeting number 557 Go to Meeting number 559