Three Educators Greet Geologists at Convention Next Week---Lowell and Lindgren Are Speakers

On Wednesday, December 28, President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, and Donald H. McLaughlin, President of the Geological Society of Boston, will welcome the National Geological Society to its first meeting at Harvard. At the evening session, Waldemar Lindgren, head of the Geology Department at M. I. T., and considered the foremost economic geologist in the world, will address the society, and extend the welcome of the Institute.

This is the forty-fifth gathering of the geologists, and the first one after the announcement of the four million dollar gift, recently donated from the fund of Dr. R. A. F. Penrose '84. At the opening session, the society will decide the purpose to which the majority of this money is to be put. The officers have already agreed to underwrite the conference of the International Geological Conference, to be held at Washington this coming summer.

In the course of the three-day conference nearly one hundred papers will be presented to the scientists, most of them dealing with geological conditions in the United States. R. A. Daly, retiring president of the society, will give the presidential address on "The Depths of the Earth." He is also about to present a new book entitled "Igneous Rocks." Another important paper on "The Development of the Intervertebrate Paleontology in America," to be presented by R. S. Bassler, retiring president of the Paleontological Society.

The climax of the convention will be at the annual dinner, in which the Palaeontological Society and the Mineralogical Society will participate. At this time the Penrose Medal will be bestowed on Edward Oscar Ulrich of the U. S. Geological Survey. He is the fifth recipient of this award. The medal, made of gold, is awarded annually for outstanding research in the geological sciences.

The Society's discussions cover the whole field of the Earth Sciences. The papers to be read will cover the physical events which preceded the formation of the planets, the history of life including theories of evolution, the age of the earth, and the study of the changes in the relief of the earth and the causes thereof.