Just rec'd a letter from Clarke saying that for the present year, most of their money must go for immediate economic applications. He also writes that the extensive undertaking we propose will take several field seasons and necessitates adequate planning and preparation. The letter seems favorable to further cooperation. Alden writes that Clarke wrote to David White about being reluctantly compelled to put the matter aside until affairs are more favorable for legislative support. It seems if we are spared to good old age, we may get to do this NY work, but not in the next 1-2 years. I expect I will meet some criticism because I write about glacial and lake history instead of doing manual labor, but my conscience is clear. I feel I am doing what I have been trained for years to do; if I lay it aside there will be much loss from fading memory, so I should write while the results are fresh in my mind. Besides I would not be a success in doing manual labor any more; while I could help my brother or cousin in haying, I should not try to do a full hands work. (Note: Leverett was 58 in 1917). Just now I am puzzling my brain on comparing how the ice receded from the Superior Basin vesus the recession from the Huron Basin and Georgian Bay. I wonder if the ice border in the closing part of Lake Algonquin as shown in Plate XXI Mon. 53, might have run across the SE end of Lake Superior, pressing against White Fish Point W to the Huron Mountains instead of staying N of Superior as we showed on Plate XXI. The Algonquin beaches are weak from Grand Marais W but strong at the Sault and St. Joseph Island, suggesting a later occupancy of the ice. I also wonder if the Superior Basin has good development of the beaches above the Nipissing along the N shore from the outlet of Lake Nipigon. I have written Prof. Colemand about this. I went through that region with Johnston in 1913. Coleman has a beach at 1400' near Cartier NW of Sudbury. We noted a moraine at 1400' there and an outwash plain S of it that descended rapidly southward. We did not see a beach. We inferred from the slope of the outwash apron that the ice border was considerably above lake level. I asked Coleman about his reasons for putting a beach there, and for information on the beach or terrace in the passage between the White River and the head of the Dog River at 1445'. Johnston and I examined features around the village at White River and thought there was a possible lake shoreline at 35-40' above the depot (1265' AT). There were flat tracts at various heights between Heron Bay and White River that we thought might mark lake levels but the features were not clearly identifiable. Above them there did not seem to be any lake action. I do not feel sure that Lake Superior was free from ice on its NE shore much if any before the beginning of Nipissing. Do you have any good data on shore higher than Nipissing between Nipigon and Michipicoten Rivers? P.S. Since writing the above I read your paper in Amer. Geologist v.20 and also Lawson's in MN G.S. 20th Ann. Report; I infer that you think lake action was well defined up to ~400' all along the N shore. In that case only some of the Algonquin beaches are likely to be present. Do you have notes on the strength of the beaches at Schreiber and other places?