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not the prime mover, in the formation of the Academy, and 
his deep interest in its work is indicated by the fact that he 
bequeathed his estate to the Academy as a fund for the promotion 
of researches in the natural and physical sciences. His original 
intention was to place the fund under the control of a board, or, 
in case the board failed to act, that the trustees of the estate 
should apply the funds to the purposes specified, under the 
direction of the American Philosophical Society. Soon after 
the organization of the National Academy, however, on July 
15, 1863, he added a codicil to his will which reads as follows: 
“Trem: My will is that, upon the death of my wife, all the rest and residue 
of my estate § shall be paid over to and vest in the corporation of the National 
Academy of Sciences, incorporated by act of Congress, passed the 3d day of 
March, A. D. 1863, whom I hereby appoint trustees in the place of my said 
executors under the fourth clause of my said will, to apply the income, according 
to the directions in the said clause contained, to the prosecution of researches in 
physical and natural science by assisting experimentalists and observers in such 
manner and in such sums as shall be agreed upon by the board of direction in the 
said clause named.” ® 
Mrs. Bache died in February, 1870, and in 1871 the treasurer, 
Fairman Rogers, reported that the amount handed over to him 
by the executors of the estate of Professor Bache was $40,515.07, 
“together with an annual ground rent of $102, and some lands 
in Missouri not now [then] available.” *® In 1879, this amount 
was increased by $4650, on the death of Henry Wood Bache, a 
nephew of Professor Bache, who was a beneficiary under the 
will of Mrs. Bache.** The income of the original fund 
amounted in 1872 to about $2500. The first allotment for 
scientific research was made in 1871 by the board having the 
fund in charge, the chairman of which was Joseph Henry. 
The amount of the grant was $500, and was the first of a series 
made to Professor J. EK. Hilgard in connection with the mag- 
netic survey of the United States. 
*'The property excepted was a house in Washington, which he gave to his sister, but 
with the provision that after her death and that of his wife it should also pass to the 
Academy. 
° Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1867, p. rr. Sen. Misc. Doc. no. 106, 40th Congress, 2d Session. 
* Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 1, p. 81. 
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