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red, sometimes mixed with various shades of 

 brown and added, if possible, to the tension and 

 horror of the scene. 



On reaching the city, it was found to be per- 

 vaded with a sultry heat even several blocks from 

 the fire. There was no breeze blowing — not a 

 breath of air except the indraught and eddy cur- 

 rents produced by the conflagration. This is an 

 unusual condition for San Francisco and lasted, 

 I am told, through the first two days of the fire. 

 I know that a light breeze from the west or south 

 of west sprang up late in the night of the nine- 

 teenth and was just enough to throw the balance 

 in favor of the fire-fighters who stopped the prog- 

 ress of the flames in the 'western addition' and 

 the ' mission ' districts. R. DeC. Waed 



THE SEALER MEMORIAL FUND 



At the last meeting of the corporation of 

 Harvard University the treasurer presented 

 the following communication specifying the 

 terms governing the Shaler Memorial Pund, 

 the receipt of a part of which was reported 

 at the meeting of January 14, 1907 : 



More than 760 alumni of Harvard Uni- 

 versity unite in giving to the president and 

 fellows of Harvard College the sum of thirty 

 thousand five hundred dollars ($30,500) to 

 establish a Shaler Memorial Fund in com- 

 memoration of the long services of Professor 

 Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and of the great 

 affection in which he was held by his many 

 students and friends. 



The subscribers to this fund have left the 

 designation of its use to the undersigned com- 

 mittee; and the committee, after consideration 

 of various projects, concludes that the me- 

 morial object of the fund will be best attained 

 —first, by setting aside a sum with which the 

 corporation shall procure a memorial tablet 

 to be put in the geological section of the uni- 

 versity museum, or some other suitable place 

 as may be designated by the corporation; and 

 second, by using the income of the balance of 

 the fund for the benefit of the division of 

 geology, in support of original research and 

 in the publication of the results of research, 

 under the following conditions: 



The researches here contemplated are to be 

 undertaken by persons nominated by the com- 

 mittee of the division of geology and ap- 



pointed by the corporation, whether officers or 

 students of Harvard University or not. The 

 subject and the locality or field of research are 

 to be approved by the division committee, 

 preference being given to studies of an ad- 

 vanced and original character. The sums of 

 money allotted from the income for research 

 are to be determined by the division com- 

 mittee, 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 Me- 

 morial Expedition.' 



The publications here contemplated are to 

 include the results of original research carried 

 on with the income of the fund, or inde- 

 pendently 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 publica- 

 tion. 



All publications thus approved, whether ap- 

 pearing in independent volumes or in some 

 established journal, shall bear the general 

 title, ' Shaler Memorial Series.' The allot- 

 ment 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 Me- 

 morial 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 investigation, expedi- 

 tion, or publication of considerable magni- 

 tude is contemplated by the division com- 

 mittee ; but it is not desired that such accumu- 

 lation shall continue beyond a reasonable 

 period of time. 



In addition to any future subscriptions that 

 may be added to the fund, such part of the 

 income as shall constitute one per cent, of the 

 principal may be annually added to the prin- 



