4 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
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” 
r ‘‘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.”’ The 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 case 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 védleanoes, 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. 
