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LATER BUILDINGS OF THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY 435 Street. The other was for the location in which the building was finally placed, immediately west of and communicating with the Walker Museum. The location having been chosen, ground was broken on March 16, 1914, and work on ths building was begun and progressed rapidly. The cornerstone was laid on Convocation Day, June 9, 1914, by Mr. Rosenwald, Professor Chamberlin making the address. The building was finished during the winter of 1914-15, the work of instruction beginning while the workmen were still busy within the walls. Before the dedication the depart- ments formally requested the Trustees to confer Mr. Rosenwald's name on the new building. The dedication occurred in connection with the March, 1915, Convocation, and brought to the University many distinguished scholars who had been students in the two departments. The formal exercises were held in the commodious lecture hall of the building on March 16. Addresses were made by President Judson, Dean Salisbury, Professor Chamberlin, and by seven alumni. These were Eliot Blackwelder, A.B. 1901, Ph.D. 1914, Professor of Geology, University of Wisconsin; Frank Wai- bridge DeWolf, S.B. 1903, Director of the State Geological Survey of Illinois; William Harvey Emmons, Ph.D. 1904, Professor of Mineralogy, University of Minnesota, Director of the Geological Survey of Minnesota; Wallace Walter Atwood, S.B. 1897, Ph.D. 1903, Professor of Physiography, Harvard University; Edwin Brayer Branson, Ph.D. 1905, Professor of Geology, University of Missouri; Ermine Cowles Case, Ph.D. 1896, Professor of Historical Geology and Paleontology, University of Michigan, and George Frederick Kay, Ph.D. 1914, Head of the Department of Geology, State University of Iowa, Director of the Geological Survey of Iowa. The following statement of Professor Atwood hi his address was gratifying to the entire University: In these departments we have had an opportunity to study with the Dean of American Geology, with the man to whom the entire world looks for the most profound philosophy of geology. In the course of his address Dean Salisbury said: During the current quarter there are between five hundred and six hundred registrations in the two departments, and what we should have done if Mr.