Geologic Museum Receives Gift of Extraordinary Value

Recently acquired from the Boston Society of National History, a rare specimen of rock, featuring intricate columnar jointing, will be on display in the Geologic Museum next week, according to Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology. The specimen, originally coming from Germany, weighs over four tons and is considered a valuable addition not only for its fossils, but also for its relation to American rocks of the same ages, its formation covering a period of roughly 1,250,000 years.

Dr. Edward G. Wigglesworth '12, secretary of the Society stated that the gift was mainly a result of reorganization of the Huntington Avenue museum of the Society, which will henceforth be devoted exclusively to the natural history of New England.

The only serious problem encountered in the donation was that of transporation of the mass to Cambridge, an especially difficult task in view of the age, texture, and weight of the specimen.