🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 4

The result of this activity that had the most direct bearing on the establishment of the volcano observatory was its influence on the trustees of the Whitney estates, who, on July 1, 1909, gave to the Institute the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) as a memorial of Edward and Caroline Rogers Whitney of Boston, for the conduct of research or teaching in geophysics to include investigations in seismology, conducted with a view to the protection of human life and property, present preference being that some investigations in geophysics be undertaken in Hawaii.

Who acts: activity, result, trustees, influence · What happens: have, be, estate, give, include, conduct · To what, where: direct bearing, establishment, influence, trustees, sum, Institute

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