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The Board of Directors shall make an annual report to the National Academy 6f Sciences 
-giving such information concerning the Fwid as shall be desired by the sai@ Academy. 
In case of any vacancy occurring in the Beard of Directors by reason Of the death, 
inability or refusal to act or resignation of afy of its members, then the su#viving 6+ 
-remaining members or member for the time being Shall have power to fill any vaedncy 36 
-occurring in the Board by the selection of another person or persons to fill the same, and $0 
-on from time to time as vacancies shall occur provided however that at least two of the 
three directors shall always be members of the National Academy of Sciences. But if at 
-any time the three Directorships of the Board shall simultaneously be vacant, then the 
National Academy of Sciences shall have power to fill these vacancies and the new 
Board of Directors in this as in all other cases shall succeed to all the rights duties and 
privileges of the former board. 
Provided however that if at any time the said Academy from any cause whatever shall 
“cease to exist or in case at any time any modification of its rights or powers shall be made 
iby any action other than that of the said Academy itself and such modification shall be fol- 
lowed within six months thereafter by a vote of the then Board of Directors approving 
ithe passing .and transfer hereinafter mentioned, then and in all of such cases the said Fund 
vtogether with all accumulations and unexpended income thereof shall pass and be trans- 
-ferred to the said Board of Directors who shall thereafter exercise the functions of both 
Directors and Trustees, and the said National Academy shall no longer thereafter act as 
“Trustee, and shall have no power of appointing Directors and none of the Directors need 
‘be members of the said National Academy; and furthermore after such transfer and passing 
the said Directors may at any time appoint any other persons or corporation as Trustees, 
reserving to themselves their powers and duties as Directors, and the Fund shall thereupon 
jpass to such new Trustees to be held upon the same trusts upon which it is hereby given to 
:the National Academy of Sciences, the principal with its accumulations to be always held 
-intact and the income applied as shall be best for the advancement of astronomy and for 
‘the honor of my father’s memory. 
And the said National Academy of Sciences doth hereby signify its acceptance of the 
-said Fund of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.) and doth engage to hold the same upon 
ithe trusts and conditioms, and for the uses and purposes herein mentioned and set forth. 
In witness whereof I the said Alice Bache Gould have hereto set my hand and seal and 
ithe said National Academy of Sciences has caused its corporate name and seal to be hereto 
:afixed by Wolcott Gibbs its President thereunto duly authorized this seventeenth (17th) 
«day of November in the year eighteen hundred and ninety seven (1897). 
ALIcE BACHE GOULD. [SEAL.] 
Wo corr GIsBs. 
President of the National Academy of Sciences. 
‘W. W. Vaughan, witness to Alice Bache Gould. 
O. C. Marsh, witness to Wolcott Gibbs. 
_J. M. Crafts, witness to Wolcott Gibbs. 
LC, .B. Comstock, witness to Wolcott Gibbs. 
°To THE BoArD oF DIRECTORS OF THE BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD FUND. 
GENTLEMEN: Believing that elaborate legal restrictions upon the uses of a perpetual 
fund may often under changing circumstances hinder the accomplishment of the general 
intention of the donor, I have in the deed creating the Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fund 
defined its uses as briefly as possible, namely, as “for the prosecution of researches in 
astronomy.” 
Nevertheless I wish hereby to record with you some personal preferences, based upon what 
I believe would have been my father’s opinions regarding the best use of such a Fund, 
