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Geology 6b--Seismic Prospecting. Dr Leet. To be omitted...
...Sigma Xi, installed last Tuesday, are G. H. Parker '87, professor of Zoology and director of the Zoological Laboratory, president; J. B. Conant '14, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, vice-president; K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, secretary; W. L. Crum, professor of Economics, treasurer; and L. D. Leet, instructor in Geology, assistant secretary. Parker has been mentioned as a likely possibility for national presidential candidate of the honorary society...
...societies, the Mineralogical Society of America and the American Paleontological Society, will hold their annual meetings in Cambridge in conjunction with the Geological Society. Exhibits of material of each of the three fields will be arranged in the common rooms of the Union, under the direction of L. D. Leet, instructor in Seismology. Excursions to various points of geological interest in New England will also be conducted for visitors from other parts of the country. Numerous scientific papers will be read at the meeting, on all phases of Geology, Paleontology, and Mineralogy. These will later be published in the Bulletin...
Members of the committee making arrangements for the convention, besides Daly and Leet, are P. E. Raymond, professor of Paleontology, M. P. Billings '23, assistant professor of Geology, K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Kirk Bryan, associate professor of Physiography. Last year the convention, held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was attended by about 400 people. The Geological Society has a membership...
...four essentials of a good seismographic station, according to Leet, are isolation from traffic, large size, deep burial, and surrounding rock. In each of these respects the Harvard station is probably unsurpassed by any of the 250 seismographic stations in the world, of which about 30 are on the North American continent. The station here is the only one in New England, the nearest being in Ottawa, Canada, and New York City. Burial in solid rock is relatively unique...