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Division Committee, preference being given to studies of an advanced and 

 original character. The sums of money allotted from the income for research 

 are to be determined by the Division Committee with the approval of the 

 Corporation. The money appropriated for such work from the income of 

 the fund shall be in addition to the salary that would be otherwise paid to the 

 person or persons undertaking it; and any work or journey thus supported in 

 whole or in part shall be carried on under the name ' ' Shaler Memorial Research ' ' 

 or "Shaler Memorial Expedition." 



"The publications here contemplated are to include the results of original 

 research carried on with the income of the fund, or independently of such aid; 

 but the results must in all cases receive the approval of the Division Committee 

 as to subject and presentation — though not necessarily as to the conclusions 

 stated — before they are accepted for publication. 



"All publications thus approved, whether appearing in independent vol- 

 umes or in some established journal, shall bear the general title, "'Shaler 

 Memorial Series." Tlie allotment of money for publication shall be deter- 

 mined in the same way as for research. 



"Beneficiaries under the fund, either as to research or publication, may be 

 invited by the Division Committee to give one or more public lectures in 

 Cambridge on the results of their studies, under the general title "Shaler 

 Memorial Lectures," but no additional payment is to be made for these 

 lectures. 



"The income of the fund may be allowed to accumulate in ca.se an investiga- 

 tion, expedition, or publication of considerable magnitude is contemplated 

 by the Division Committee, but it is not desired that such accumulation shall 

 continue beyond a reasonable period of time." 



In geology, the action of volcanoes, the phenomena of the contact 

 of sea and land, and the evidences of past glaciation particularly 

 occupied Professor Shaler's thoughts. This last subject was a direct 

 inheritance from his master Louis Agassiz. With James Croll, 

 Professor Shaler went further than Louis Agassiz did in perceiving 

 evidences of glacial periods in the geological record long anterior to 

 the great ice-age whose recognition was the lasting contribution of 

 Louis Agassiz to geological science. Professor Shaler anticipated 

 the discovery in the conglomeratic formations of the closing Palaeozoic 

 era of signs of glaciers, which only in recent years have been thoroughly 

 scrutinized by others and found to be veritable products of glacial 

 action. With a view to contributing to the advancement of knowledge 

 in this field, the Division of Geology voted that a grant of money from 

 the Shaler Memorial Fund be expended by the author for the explora- 

 tion of the Permian conglomerates of the region south of Sao Paulo in 

 Brazil, the glacial origin of which had already been advanced by Dr. 



