Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology |
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act and deed alcohol already animals appropriated arranged Articles of Agreement Boston building Captain Putnam Cary coast Committee COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Comparative Zoology Corporation crustacea Curator Divinity Hall donation East Indies Echinoderms erection establishment F. W. Putnam Faculty fauna faunal collections Fayal Fellows of Harvard fifty thousand dollars fossils free act free scholarships Garret GEORGE TICKNOR Governor grant Gray Fund Harvard College hereby HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hundred thousand dollars Hyatt income insects institution instruction JACOB BIGELOW JAMES LAWRENCE JAMES WALKER land of Palfrey large collection large number LOUIS AGASSIZ meeting ment moiety Mollusks Museum of Comparative NATHANIEL THAYER Natural History number of specimens present preservation President and Fellows Professor Agassiz purposes received reptiles SAMUEL G SAMUEL HOOPER Scientific School Scudder Secretary Senate sent Society Islands species specimens of fishes systematic collection Theodore Lyman tion Treasurer valuable Verrill Voted WARD WILLIAM GRAY
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Page 19 - Nation of Indians to remain on the tract of land set apart for them by the President of the United States, on the Wolf and Oconto Rivers, and upon which they now reside, the same being within the State of Wisconsin aforesaid, and described as follows, to wit: "Commencing at the southeast corner of township 28 427.
Page 8 - Corporation may receive, hold, purchase and possess real and personal property not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars in value, to be used and improved for the erection, support and maintenance of a Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Page 10 - College upon the order of said corporation ; such payments not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.
Page 8 - The governor, the lieutenant-governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the secretary of the board of education, the chief justice of the highest judicial court...
Page 10 - The aforesaid free scholarships shall be under the control of the Board of Education, and may be filled and managed in such mode as now is or may hereafter be provided by law for the regulation of all free scholarships established by the Commonwealth.
Page 22 - Neither the collections, nor any buildings which may contain the same, shall ever be designated by any other name than the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Fifth. The Museum shall never be appended to any other department, but is to be under the charge of an independent Faculty, responsible only to the Corporation and Overseers. Sixth. The President of the College shall be the President of the Faculty, which shall be composed of four members besides the President. In case of...
Page 14 - ... available for the erection, support, and maintenance of a Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, upon a condition, however, that a like amount shall have been obtained, by private subscription, in aid of such institution, and did, at the same session, incorporate a Board of fifteen Trustees, by an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Page 19 - THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, That the parties of the first part, in consideration of the premises, and of one dollar to them in hand paid...
Page 23 - ... Agassiz, Director of the Museum ; Dr. Jacob Bigelow, Professor Oliver -Wendell Holmes, and Professor Jeffries Wyman. Ninth. In case of the loss of any part of the Fund, so much of the income as may be requisite for this purpose shall be retained to make good such loss, provided that not more than one half of the income shall be so retained in any one year.
Page 20 - AD 19 , personally appeared , president of [name of corporation] , and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be the free act and deed of the said [name of corporation], before me.