Geological Society of America Election of 1921: A Reprise

Charles Schuchert, of Yale, was in 1921 the nominee for President of the Geological Society of America for 1922. A campaign to prevent his election was mounted in Washington, D. C., principally by members of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The campaign and its failure have been described by Weiss. Schuchert's own records of that campaign have been discovered recently, and from them we have learned how he discovered the attack on his candidacy, how he felt about the matter, and his opinons of the principals behind the campaign.