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Whereupon it was 



Voted, That the Shaler Memorial Fund be gratefully accepted 

 upon the terms and for the uses stated in the foregoing communi- 

 cation, and that' the President and Fellows hereby record their 

 satisfaction in the possession of such an enduring and fruitful 

 memorial of Professor Shaler. 



The income of this fund will go far towards maintaining those 

 field investigations on the part of the teaching staff which Professor 

 Shaler ever insisted upon and will also tend to place the Division 

 of Geology in a position to undertake independent and somewhat 

 extended investigations. A part of the gift, it is understood, is to 

 be applied to the erection of a suitable memorial tablet to Profes- 

 sor Shaler. It is probable that the income of the fund will be 

 applied in 1908 towards an expedition to Brazil to investigate the 

 Permo-Carboniferous conglomerates of that country in their bear- 

 ing on late Palaeozoic glaciation, a subject quite in keeping with Pro- 

 fessor Shaler's early writings upon recurrent glaciation in the past. 



Through the generosity of certain members of the Visiting 

 Committee, the Department has been able to order for the Geo- 

 logical section of the Museum a 100 kilogram Bosch-Omori 

 seismograph. This instrument, constructed by Messrs. J. and A. 

 Bosch, of Strassburg, Germany, is designed to register all move- 

 ments of the earth near or distant. It magnifies horizontal oscil- 

 lations one hundred times, and by this means it is hoped to obtain 

 satisfactory records of many of the smaller earthquake shocks 

 which originate in New England and adjacent regions. 



By an arrangement with Professor Wolff in behalf of the De- 

 partment of Mineralogy and Petrography and by means of a 

 grant from the Corporation, the Department has had for three 

 fifths of his time the services of an expert laboratory aid and 

 custodian of teaching materials, Mr. George Marsh Flint. 



The Geological Conference was maintained during the year. 

 Twenty-seven " papers " were presented by instructors, students, 

 and former members of the University. 



Professors Davis and Johnson gave two lectures in the Uni- 

 versity Museum Sunday afternoon course. Both lectures were 

 well attended. 



By means of a grant of $250 from its unrestricted fees and the 

 use of fees received for the course from students the Department 

 was able to send a field party to Montana. This party, under the 



