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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Meeting 570
Cosmos Club

Wednesday, January 25, 1939

John Beaver Mertie Jr., President          Parker Davies Trask, Meeting Secretary

Francis P. ShepardScripps Institute of Oceanography—Non-depositional environments off the California coast .

Erling DorfPrinceton University—The stratigraphic significance of the flora of the type Lance formation.

Francois Emile MatthesUSGS—Post-Pleistocene origin of the glaciers of the Sierra Nevada.


Attendance: 87
Minutes not available.
Published account of meeting appears in: J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 30, 485-499

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