AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET HERE IN CHRISTMAS RECESS

Convening for its forty-fifth annual session, the Geological Society of America will meet in the Harvard Union on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December 28, 29, and 30, with over 400 prominent geologists in attendance, it was announced yesterday by Russell Gibson, assistant professor of Geology, who is chairman of the committee arranging the convention. Harvard, M.I.T., and the Boston Geological Society are hosts for the gathering.

All scientific sessions of the group will be held in the Union, as well as the annual banquet. A feature of the convention will be the address of the retiring president of the Society, R. A. Daly, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, on the first day of the conference. Daly will speak on "The Depths of the Earth." Following his address a smoker will be held for all delegates at M.I.T. All other functions will take place in the Union.

Affiliated Societies Meet

Two affiliated scientific societies, the Mineralogical Society of America and the American Paleontological Society, will hold their annual meetings in Cambridge in conjunction with the Geological Society. Exhibits of material of each of the three fields will be arranged in the common rooms of the Union, under the direction of L. D. Leet, instructor in Seismology. Excursions to various points of geological interest in New England will also be conducted for visitors from other parts of the country. Numerous scientific papers will be read at the meeting, on all phases of Geology, Paleontology, and Mineralogy. These will later be published in the Bulletin of the Society.

Members of the Committee

Members of the committee making arrangements for the convention, besides Daly and Leet, are P. E. Raymond, professor of Paleontology, M. P. Billings '23, assistant professor of Geology, K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Kirk Bryan, associate professor of Physiography. Last year the convention, held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was attended by about 400 people. The Geological Society has a membership of 615.