APPENDIX TO JOURNAL. 93 



B. 

 BACHE FUND. 



Exiracts from the icill of Alexander I>cdk(,s Baclie. Dated Majx'h 18,1802. 



Item. As to all tLe 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 disposition of the same, I direct my ex- 

 ecutors, 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 gen- 

 tlemen, 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 ob- 

 jects, after the death of my said wife. The class of subjects to be se- 

 lected by this board, and the results of such observations and experi- 

 ments, to be published at the exj^ense of my trust estate, under their 

 directions, 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 gen- 

 tlemen 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 writ- 

 ing, either testamentary or otherwise, desiring that in the selection of 

 the persous 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 j^hysics, mathematics, and natural his- 

 tory shall be represented in the board. In case of any vacancy occur- 

 ring 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 resig- 

 nation of any of the members, my will is that the surviving or remain- 

 ing member or members for the time being shall have power to fill va- 

 cancies 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 ap- 

 pointment 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 api^lication of the income of my said residuary estate, or to continue 

 its existence by filling vacancies occurring in their body, my will is that 



