I was sorry to find you could not attend the NY meeting and infer that you thought your health would not be good enough to stand the trip and the strain of the meetings. There was a large attendance and the geological papers were of exceptional interest. You can get the gist of them in the GSA abstracts circular issued before the meeting, so I will not attempt to present the ideas advanced then. Richard Foster Flint's paper on the stagnant condition of the ice sheet in New England and NY had radical ideas that sparked a half hour discussion by Lane, Antevs, Chadwick, Sayles et alia. There probably was stagnant ice in part of the region some of the time but Flint suggested general and prolonged stagnation. Johnston of the Canada Survey was there but did not present a paper and did not participate in the discussion. He, Goldthwait & I spent 1-2 hours talking over matters in which we were all interested -- the Niagara chronology, the oscillations of lake or marine waters in the St Lawrence and Ottawa basins, etc. We wished you could have been there with us. On Thursday night, the Sec. E session was devoted to glacial matters and was went off well, even though Dr Reeds was sick and unable to participate, so Dr Osborn presented most of Reeds' paper and his own as well. Daly made a very interesting presentation of the effect of ice sheets on sea level. I cut my paper down to about 40 minutes so there would be opportunity for discussion, and Kay took advantage of this and jumped on me as hard as he could because I would not make the Iowan a distinct glacial stage from the Illinoian. He was so excited and rabid that I think he hurt himself rather than me, at least several people expressed themselves to that effect to me after the meeting. Mrs L and I and my sister Mrs Houston of Denmark plan to go to Tucson in the coming week, leaving here Tuesday Jan. 15. We will probably be there until the end of April. Our address will be University Station, Tucson, AZ. We planned to start yesterday but my brother Charles of Ypsilanti died Wednesday down in AL where he and his wife were spending the winter. His body was brought up here for the funeral yesterday afternoon. He died of pneumonia after a very brief illness. His condition became alarming on Monday and he was taken to a hospital in Demopolis, and he died two days later. He has always been a strong healthy man so it was surprising he succumbed so quickly. The doctor told his son Harold Leverett that his father lacked "morale". For some years he has been anticipating that he would die of pneumonia so when he learned of this attack he assumed his time was up and he made no effort to live. We are having zero weather here this morning but it will probably moderate before we leave on our journey. We hope you and Mrs Taylor will get through the winter nicely. If you go to CA, we shall expect to see you in Tucson, either going or coming. Let us know a few days in advance.