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\7endell Phillips .'/ooiii-ing v/as born in j-^eading, Penn- 

 sylvania, Jitne the 15th, 1891. After attend in?" the public 

 schools of that city arid also ~f Allentown and I'yerstown he 

 received ore-collegiate training at Albright Preparatory School, 

 Kyerstown, Pennsylvania. In 190C he entered Albright College, 

 from v.hich institution he received the degree of Bachelor of 

 Arts in 1910. The next two years v/ere spent in High-School 

 instruction. Thro'agho'it the last four academic years he has 

 been engaged in graduate work in the Department of Oeology 

 of the Johns Hopkins University. During 1912-1913 and 1915- 

 1914 he held a University Scholarship and in 1914-1915 he 

 was a University Fellow in Paleontology. 



The field season of 1913 was spent as a Geologic 

 Aid in a fiel^: party of the Section of '.Testern Mineral ?uels 

 of the United States Geological Survey operating in north- 

 western -iolorado and northeastern Utah. During the follow- 

 ing summer he v/as v;ith a similar party in northwestern ./yo- 

 minp-. In the position of Junior Geologist he waa a member of a 

 party that pursued investigations in northern I.Iontana during 

 the field season of 1915. 



