Preliminary Report on the Cretaceous and Tertiary Larger Foraminifera of Trinidad British West Indies

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INTRODUCTION The first lots of material on which this report is based were sent to T. W. Vaughan at the U. S. National Museum by Messrs. F. W. Penny and J. A. Bullbrook prior to Vaughan’s removal in January 1924 from Washington, D. C., to La Jolla, California. Mr. Bullbrook sent a large collection during the latter part of 1923. Vaughan had intended either to make or to have someone else make a detailed study of this collection in order to compare the geological horizons represented in Trinidad with those found on the islands and the continental areas adjacent to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore the collections which had been sent to Washington were transferred to La Jolla. About 1926 Dr. H. G. Kugler began to send collections to Vaughan for investigation. During the years 1926–1928 Miss Marion Willcox, now Mrs. E. G. Moberg, devoted most of her time under Vaughan’s direction to sorting and identifying the different species represented in the collection at that time. Subsequently Vaughan, because of his many duties, was not able to devote consecutive time to the study of the material; therefore, in June 1935 W. Storrs Cole came to La Jolla and devoted the whole of his time until about the middle of September to work on the collection. As soon as was practicable Vaughan took up the study and devoted a large part of a full year, 1935–1936, to it. It should be said . . .

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