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By a vote of the Corporation, passed at the request of Mr. 
Gardner, the income of the fund may now be expended for process 
reproductions and enlargements; and any unexpended balance 
may be used for purchase of geological maps. 
The more important additions to the collection during the year 
were as follows:— 800 lantern slides purchased by Professor 
Atwood for use in his courses (in process of being catalogued) ; 
78 lantern slides and photographs purchased from Dr. F. H. 
Lahee, illustrating details of local geology; 95 photographs of the 
southern Pacific Islands, from Prof. W. M. Davis. A large series 
of panoramic photographs of the Hawaiian volcanoes, taken by 
Mr. G. C. Curtis, has been received, for scientific use, from Mr. 
Sayles and placed in storage uncatalogued. 
As a result of the recent vote of the Corporation allowing a wider 
use of the income of the fund, the following were purchased: 
Joubin’s Map of the coral reefs of the world; Stille’s Geologische 
_ Charakterbilder; Schuchert’s Paleogeographic maps, complete 
(enlargements). 
About 300 lantern slides have been loaned temporarily to 
Wellesley College to replace the collection which was destroyed 
in the recent fire at that college. Professor Barton has continued 
to use the collection in his course in the Teachers’ School of Science. 
During the year, three field investigations, supported by the 
accumulated income of the Shaler Memorial Fund, were begun. 
A grant was made to Prof. W. M. Davis, who, early in 1914, left 
Cambridge to study the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean and has 
not yet (October 10, 1914) returned. A second grant was made 
to Professors Raymond and Twenhofel to cover their expenses in an 
extensive stratigraphic study of the Silurian system in Russia and 
Sweden. The third grant was made to Professor Atwood for an 
investigation of physiographic development in relation to the 
natural concentration of ores in the Butte district, Montana. The 
range of these problems and the standing of the investigators 
Indicate the rich and steady harvest which may be expected from 
the employment of this permanent fund. 
_ This year the Josiah Dwight Whitney scholarship, to the full 
value of its annual income, was granted to Mr. Alfred Wandtke, 
who spent the summer working on the geology of special localities 
in Montana and other western states. 
Professors Wolff and Palache, of the Department of Mineralogy 
and Petrography, have continued to give their indispensable 
services freely to our own Department; not the least of their 
courtesies is that of giving hospitality to geological students who 
