58 Report of the President 



the under surface geological conditions of the city and a por- 

 tion of its immediate vicinity. 



During the year a series of fossils illustrating historical 

 geology was selected, identified and labeled and presented to 

 Wellesley College to assist that institution in rehabilitating its 

 geological department after the fire which destroyed its 

 educational material early in the year. In this connection it 

 may be of interest to state that this work cost the Museum 

 not less than $150 in time and that a similar series selected for 

 Professor Charles T. Kirk, of the State University of New 

 Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, a year ago, cost about the 

 same. Such work is worth doing and more of it might be done 

 to good advantage both to the recipients of the collections and 

 to the gaining of space in our crowded storage cases, but it 

 takes time and labor for which no provision has been made in 

 the budget of the department. 



Assistant Curator Reeds prepared about fifty illustrations 



— glacial maps, profiles, sections of river valleys showing geo- 



„ , logical construction — for Professor Henry Fairfield 



Research 



„_ t Osborn's book, "Men of the Old Stone Age." 



Vv ork 



He also made translations from Penck's estimate 



as to the length of Pleistocene and Post-pleistocene time and 



oscillations of the European continent during it. The 



Curator has been so much occupied in the performance 



of administrative duties that he has had no time for research 



work during the year. 



An article by Mr. George R. Wieland of Yale University 



entitled "Further Notes on Ozarkian Seaweeds and Oolites," 



_ , ,. . based upon specimens which have been pre- 



Pubhcations . ., , ,,. , , 



sented to the department, was published as 



pp. 237-260 and plates XIV-XIX of Volume XXXIII of the 

 Museum Bulletin. The Curator has begun work on a cata- 

 logue of the meteorites in the Museum's collection which is to 

 be offered for publication in the Bulletin. 



Mr. Arthur Briesemeister, cartographer, draftsman and 

 modeler, has been released from the department for lack of 



„, . „ _ funds to continue the kind of work upon 



Changes in Start . . , . ,, T> . 



which he was engaged. Mr. Briesemeister 



is an exceptionally skilful and competent workman and his 



