"Plans for a Department of Stratigraphic Geology and Paleontology." Includes correspondence, 1919-1923; "Summary of the Work of the Sedimentation Laboratory" at the University of Iowa; drafts of "Suggested Plans for a Department of Stratigraphic Geology and Paleontology;" copy of "Depletion of Soils By Chemical Denudation" by Milton Whitney; copy of "Colloid Content of Some Marine Sediments" by W. O. Robinson; "Notes on Experiments with Bentonite;" "Suggestions for a Study of the Bottom Samples of Chesapeake Bay" by E. W. Shaw, M. I. Goldman, and Vaughan; "Problems in the Determination and Interpretation of the Physical Characters of Sedimentary Deposits" by E. W. Shaw; "A Scale of Sizes for Clastic Materials" and "A Laboratory and Field Study of Cobble Abrasion" by Chester K. Wentworth; "Physico-Chemical Investigations of the Water of the Pacific Ocean" by Roger C. Wells; "Dynamic Phase of Deposition of Skeletons" by S. Tashiro; report of the Committee on Pacific Investigations by the National Research Council, 1923; minutes of various meetings of the National Research Council, 1919-1923; suggested outlines and projects in problems of sedimentation; "Treatise on Sedimentation" by W. H. Twenhofel, 1923; and Organization and Reports of the Committee on Sedimentation, 1919-1923. (3 folders)

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See more items in: Thomas Wayland Vaughan Papers; Thomas Wayland Vaughan Papers / Series 2: WRITINGS AND NOTES, 1913-1947, AND UNDATED. / Box 6

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 99-124, Thomas Wayland Vaughan Papers