GEOLOGY AND FOSSIL INVERTEBRATES 
" Selma," the largest entire stone meteorite known, was found in "Seima." 
Alabama in 1906 and purchased for $1,200. It weighs 306 lbs. 
The latest addition to this department was the "Guffey" meteorite, " Guffey." 
weighing 682 lbs., and purchased in 1909 for $1,500. 
EXPEDITIONS 
The various expeditions by Associate Curator Hovey added greatly 
to the value of the department, both in extent of collections and the 
scientific data obtained. The publication of the investigations of 
the volcanic phenomena following the eruptions in Martinique and 
St. Vincent in 1902 placed the name of the Museum among the leading 
contributors to volcanology. 
SCIENTIFIC STAFF 
Professor Robert Parr Whitfield has been in the active service of 
the Museum since 1877. The Museum's report for that year states 
that " the purchase of the Hall Collection has made the Departments 
of Geology and Palaeontology so important that the services of a special 
Curator have been required and Professor R. P. Whitfield has been Robert Parr 
employed to take charge of that part of our collections." He has ^J^^* ' ' 
served the Museum continuously as Curator of the Department of > 877-1 909. 
Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology since that time, devoting 
himself assiduously to the cataloguing and arranging of the collec- 
tions. It was chiefly at his suggestion that the Bulletin was estab- 
lished as a medium for publishing the scientific research of the 
Curators, and he himself has made many valuable contributions to it. 
The Department of Marine Invertebrate Zoology was also under his 
charge from 1890 until 1901, when it was estabhshed as a separate 
Department under Dr. Bumpus. Professor Whitfield was Curator of 
Mineralogy and Conchology also until they were made a separate 
department in 1901. 
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