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which tend to promote scientific and aesthetic culture. The formal title 

 assumed by this body was 'The Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Fine 

 Arts and Museum Collection Fund/ subsequently changed to 'The 

 Trustees of the Carnegie Institute/ 



The announcement of this gift and the conditions which were to 

 govern the trust necessitated a change in the administration of the 

 affairs of the Museum. The control of the Museum and the collections 

 contained in it was transferred from the Academy of Science and Art to 

 the newly appointed Trustees of the Endowment Fund, the Academy of 

 Science and Art engaging to cooperate with the Trustees and to apply 

 the revenues in their possession, derived from the annual dues of the 

 membership, to the maintenance of courses of popular lectures in the 

 hall of the Museum. 



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GUSTAVE GUTTENBEEG. 



The immediate oversight of the Museum was vested by the action of 

 the Trustees in a committee of eight, including ex officio the President 

 of the Board. The committee as at first constituted consisted of the 

 following gentlemen: C. C. Mellor, Chairman; Samuel Harden 

 Church, Litt. D., Secretary; W. N. Frew, Esq., President of the Board; 

 Rev. A. A. Lambing, President of the Western Pennsylvania Historical 

 Society; Hon. H. P. Ford, Mayor of Pittsburgh; John A. Brashear, 

 Sc. D.; Josiah Cohen, Esq., and W. J. Holland, LL. D., Chancellor of 

 the Western University of Pennsylvania. 



Unfortunately, the hand of death removed the man wno would have 

 been the first choice of the Trustees for the important position of 

 Director of the new Museum. Professor Gustave Guttenberg died in 



