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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...More than 760 alumni of Harvard University 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 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...
...subscribers to this fund have left the designation of its use to the undersigned committee; and the committee, after consideration of various 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 designated 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...
...Division Committee, preference being given to studies of an advanced and original character. The sums of money allotted from the income for research are to be determined by the Division Committee, with the approval of the Corporation. The money appropriated for such work from the income of the fund shall be in addition to the salary that would be otherwise paid to the person or persons undertaking it; and any work or journey thus supported in whole or in part shall be carried on under the name 'Shaler Memorial Research' or 'Shaler Memorial Expedition...
...publications here contemplated are to include the results of original research carried on with the income of the fund, or independently of such aid; but the results must in all cases receive the approval of the Division Committee as to subject and presentation--though not necessarily as to the conclusions stated--before they are accepted for publication...
...Beneficiaries under the fund, either as to research or publication, may be invited by the Division Committee to give the or more public lectures in Cambridge on the results of their studies, under the general title 'Shaler Memorial Lectures,' but no additional payment is to be made for these lectures...