Indiana University 
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 
E. R. CUMINGS, GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY 
W. N. LOGAN, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY 
C. A. MALOTT, PHYSIOGRAPHY 
J. w. BEEDE, GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY 
S. S. VISHER, GEOGRAPHY 
J. E. SWITZER, GEOGRAPHY 
C. A. LAMEY, Economic Geology 
W. D. THORNBURY, PHYSIOGRAPHY 
flee. 17, 1929 
Dear Baseler: 
FiEst I want to thank you heartily for the 
magnificent monograph by you and Oanu on the Phillipine 
Bryozoa. It makes me homesick to get back to the Bryozoa, 
myself, but I fear I never shall. Second, I am making up 
a package for Koliha, though I am out of many of my papers. 
I sent him the Silurian of Northern Indiana last year. 
By the way the 611 geologists have waked up on the reef 
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problem, and I am being besought for rny papers and for 
information on that subject. Of course they have had one 
of the finest reels on the continent right under their noses 
(the Oapitan reef) all these years. I hope now that we can 
enaole Beede to study it in detail. He is the best qualified 
man. I wonder if there is any way the National Museum could 
help him. I think I can get a subsidy from the University. 
Last summer I made a second visit to Hamilton Ontario 
and many other points in Ontario, as far up as Tobermory,, As 
I dope out Spence^ section, quoted by you (1909), his No. 
7 i^ the top of the Medina, Mo 8 is the Clinton limestone, 
the Building beds are the Gasport, and No. 9 and part of 10-11 
the Rochester. I & m not so sure but that the Gasport ought 
to be associated with the Rochester too. This would make 
