APPENDIX VI 
TEXT OF BEQUESTS AND TRUSTS 
THE ALEXANDER AGASSIZ FUND 
The will of Professor Agassiz contains the following clause: 
I give to the National Academy of Sciences at Washington the sum of Fifty Thousand 
Dollars ($50,000) for the general use of the said Academy. 
THE A. D. BACHE FUND 
The will of Alexander Dallas Bache, dated March 18, 1862, contains the fol- 
lowing provisions: 
Item.—As to all the rest and residue of my Estate, including the sum of Five thousand 
dollars placed at the disposal of my wife in case she should not desire to make any dis- 
position of the same, I direct my executors hereinafter named to apply the income thereof 
after the death of my wife according to and under the directions of Joseph Henry of 
Washington, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce of Harvard College, Massachusetts, 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 three above- 
named gentlemen, or any two of them, whom I constitute a Board of Direction for the 
application of the income of my residuary estate for the above objects, after the death of 
my said wife. The class of subjects to be selected by this Board, and the results of such 
observations and experiments, to be published at the expense of my Trust Estate under 
their direction out of the income thereof but without encroaching on the principal. 
In case of the death or inability to act of all or any of the three gentlemen I have 
named in my wife’s lifetime, My will is that she shall supply their places in the Board 
of Direction by an Instrument of writing either testamentary or otherwise, desiring that in 
the selection of the persons, to administer the income of the trust funds hereby created, she 
will have regard to the selection of persons whose attention has been directed to the same 
branches of science as those I have named and so that each of the Departments of Physics, 
Mathematics, and Natural History shall be represented in the Board. In case of any 
vacancy occurring in the Board of Direction after its organization and after the death of 
my wife, by reason of the death inability or refusal to act or resignation of any of its mem- 
bers, my will is that the surviving or remaining member or members for the time being 
shall have power to fill vacancies so occurring in the Board by the selection of other person 
or persons to fill such vacancies and so on from time to time as vacancies shall occur. My 
intention being that the Board of Direction shall have power to continue its existence and 
to filling all vacancies occurring in their body from time to time I direct that a minute of 
their proceedings be kept, and that the appointment of any member by the Board shall be 
notified in writing to the trustees for the time being of my residuary estate. In the event 
of any failure of the Board for the time being to direct the application of the income of my 
said residuary estate, or to continue its existence by filling vacancies occurring in their 
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