collection far larger than I could use in the book, but the others, 

 mounted in an album, were valuable for teaching purposes. 



An invitation to attend the William Smith celebration in Bath led to 

 my first visit to that beautiful and most fascinating place, which has so 

 large a part in English literature. The celebration of the "Father of 

 British Geology" was attended by a small number of interested people 

 who, after a luncheon in the Guildhall, given by the Lord Mayor, 

 listened to an address in the Bath Institute by F. A. Bather, President of 

 the Geological Society of London. This excursion also enabled me to see, 

 for the first time, Salisbury, Stonehenge and Winchester. On July 13 I 

 sailed from Southampton by the Leviathan, which had brought me over 

 in May. The novel experience of "Tourist Third Class" proved to be 

 very pleasant and my fellow voyagers were a very interesting lot of 

 people, much more so, I was assured, than were to be found in the First 

 or Second Cabin. 



In the hunt for a wider variety of photographs for the new edition I 

 spent many days going through the vast collection of the U.S. Geological 

 Survey at Washington and, in the spring of 1928, followed this by a visit 

 to Ottawa for a study of the material gathered by the Canadian Survey. 

 Director W. H. Collins was most kind and helpful and made my visit 

 to the Canadian capital a memorable one, beginning a friendship that 

 endured until his lamentably early death. He was my guest at Princeton 

 on the way to the Congress at Washington in 1933 and we were room- 

 mates in the overcrowded Wardman Park Hotel. Both at Washington 

 and at Ottawa the difficulty was in making selecdons, for incomparably 

 more was available than could possibly be used. 



One of the younger members of the Department of Geology, Professor 

 Richard Field, devised a novel summer "school on wheels," for which 

 the Pullman Company built a club-car, the Princeton. In these comfort- 

 able quarters a party of twenty or so, undergraduate and graduate stu- 

 dents, instructors and some distinguished foreign guest, made journeys 

 of 10,000 miles, through the United States in one year and Canada the 

 next, visiting regions that were of particular interest, either geologically 

 or economically. On Field's invitation, I joined the excursion of 1929 and 

 enjoyed an unusual experience (for me) seeing much of geological 

 interest and making many photographs which proved to be useful. We 

 visited the pegmatite region in Maine, the coasts of the Bay of Fundy in 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Chaleur Bay and the lower St. 

 Lawrence, and had a very interesting stop at Quebec, which I had not 

 seen before, and went out to the Falls of Montmorency, which I was 



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