MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19 



In this table students registered in the Graduate School of 

 Applied Science appear for the first time. A marked change in 

 the relative numbers of those registered under Harvard College 

 and the Lawrence Scientific School appears in the undergraduate 

 courses, owing to the transfer of many students from the latter 

 to the former grouping under the new regulations for obtaining 

 the S.B. degree in Harvard College. 



Details as to the courses of instruction will be found in the 

 abstracts of the reports of the departmental staff (p. 23-27). 

 Messrs. J. W. Eggleston, F. H. Lahee, H. E. Mervin, E. J. 

 Saunders, and F. H. Sawyer assisted in the several courses. 



The principal increment in the resources of the Department for 

 the past year arises from its sharing with the Division of Geology 

 in the benefits of the Shaler Memorial Fund. The terms of 

 administration of this fund are set forth in the following extract 

 from the records of the President and Fellows of Harvard 

 College at their meeting of March 11, 1907 : — 



The Treasurer presented the following communication specify- 

 ing the terms governing the Shaler Memorial Fund, the receipt of 

 a part of which was reported at the meeting of January 14, 

 1907: — 



Boston, Mass., March 1, 1907. 

 More than seven hundred and sixty (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 (30,500.00) to establish a 



u Shaler Memorial Fund" 



in commemoration of the long services of Professor Nathaniel South- 

 gate 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 committee ; and the committee, after consideration of va- 

 rious projects, concludes that the memorial 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 University Museum, or some other suitable place as may be desig- 

 nated 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 b}' the Committee of the Division of Geology and appointed 



