Shaler, Alexander
soldier, engineer, author, was born March 19, 1827, in Haddam, Conn. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863, and brevetted majorgeneral of volunteers in 1865. He was consulting engineer to the Chicago board of police and fire in 1874-75, being charged with the reorganization and instruction of the fire department in that city. From 1867 till 1886 he was major-general of the first division of the national guard of New York, and was an organizer and president of the National Rifle association of the United States. He published a Manual of Arms for Light Infantry Using the Rifle Musket.
SHALER, NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE, geologist, educator, author, was born Feb. 22, 1841, in Newport, Ky. He is an eminent geologist, professor of paleontology at Harvard university in 1868-87, and of geology from 1887. He is the author of Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, a Pioneer Commonwealth; The Nature of Intellectual Property and Its Importance to the State; The Interpretation of Nature; The Story of Our Continent; Illustrations of the Earth's Surface: Glaciers (with W. M. Davis); The United States of America: a study of the American Commonwealth; First Book in Geology; Nature and Man in America; Sea and Land: Features of Coasts and Oceans; Aspects of the Earth; Fossil Branchiopods of the Ohio Valley; American Highways; and Domesticated Animals: Their Relation to Man.