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2. Completion of the first large paper on correlation of the forma- 

 tions and their contained faunas in the Great Basin province of west- 

 ern North America. 



3. Completion of several papers covering description and relation- 

 ships of faunas from Tertiary localities ranging from the San Francisco 

 Bay region of California through Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho. 



4. Carrying forward of the most extensive series of studies ever made 

 in any one year on the problem of history and evolution of the whale 

 and seal groups from regions bordering the Pacific Ocean. 



5. Conducting the most productive series of comparative studies on 

 the history and evolution of plants that has been made in any one year 

 in the Pacific Coast region of North America. 



There is ground for belief that the results of this work will con- 

 tribute much toward an understanding of the specific problems of 

 geolog}^ biology, and history discussed. There is also reason to expect 

 that the joint efforts of the several investigators engaged in these 

 studies will help materially in our interprets-tion of the larger problem 

 of interrelation between critical questions of geological history and 

 those concerning biological evolution. 



