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...university in this country. It began in a summer course in botany, organized in 1871 by Professor Asa Gray, which was soon followed by courses in biology, chemistry, and geology. The gradual enlargement of these courses into the Summer School of Arts and Sciences was the work of Professor Shaler. The summer school was primarily established in order to provide University instruction for teachers, but has come also to be used as a means to finish college work in three years and to be of assistance to men entering the University in the fall in passing admission examinations...
...Geological conference "A Shaler Memorial Study of Coral Reefs." Illustrated. Professor W. M. Davis, Geological Lecture Room, University Museum...
After visiting New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides during June and July in connection with his Shaler Memorial Study of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific, Professor W. M. Davis attended during August the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne. At Sydney he spoke before the Section of Geography on the "Coast of New Caledonia" and before the Section of Geology on "A New Evidence for Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs...
...very illuminating letter in John Graham Brooks' life of William H. Baldwin, Jr., '85--"An American Citizen"--from Mr. Baldwin to his younger brother, which those who are choosing courses might profit by. "I thought I would take Natural History IV," he says, "Just to hear Professor Shaler, but it proved to be a 'New Heavens and a new earth'...The ideas which I got from Professor Shaler led to many other inquiries, and no one thing can ever happen to me so fortunately from an intellectual point of view, as happened when I took N.H.IV." It was not Natural...
...expedition is one of a series of scientific investigations which have been carried out in the last few years through the fund given in 1907 by a number of graduates in memory of the work done by Professor N. S. Shaler...