94 APPENDIX TO JOURNAL. 



tlie applidatiou of tbe income thereof, for the purposes and objects de- 

 clared in tliis clause of my will shall be made by tbe trustees, under tbe 

 direction of tbe American Pbilosopbical Society, of Pbiladelpbia. 



Extract from the codicil to tJie tciU of Alexander Dallas BacJie, dated Juhj 



15, 18G3. 



Item. My will is that upon tbe deatb of my wife all tbe rest and resi- 

 due of my estate shall be paid over to and rest in tbe corporation of 

 '' The National Academy of Sciences," incorporated by act of Congress 

 passed tbe third day of March, A. D. 1803, whom I hereby appoint 

 trustees in tbe 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 sucb sums as shall be agreed upon by the board of di- 

 rection in tbe said clause named. 



My will further is that in case of any failure of the board for tbe time 

 being to direct tbe application of the income of my residuary estate, or 

 to continue its existence by filling vacancies occurring in their body, 

 the api)licatiou of tbe income thereof for the purposes and objects de- 

 clared in the said clause shall be made under tbe directions of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences, instead of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, of Philadelphia. In all other respects the said application of the 

 income to tbe purposes aforesaid to be made hy the same persons, and 

 under the same rules as I have prescribed in the said clause of my will. 



C. 

 COECORAN ART GALLERY. 



Letter from Mr. Corcoran to the Trustees. 



Washington, May 10, 1869. 



Gentlemen : It is known to you that the building at the northeast 

 corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventeenth street was designed by 

 me for the encouragement of the fine arts, as is indicated by tbe dedi- 

 cation upon its front. 



The work was begun in the year 1859, and was prosecuted with the 

 heartiness naturally incident to sucb an undertaking, until it was inter- 

 rupted by the breaking out of the late civil war, when tbe public exi- 

 gencies led to the immediate occupation of the building for military 

 purposes ; and to these uses it has been devoted ever since, until, being 

 no longer required by the War Department, it is about to be restored to 

 my possession. 



It was my cherisbed hope to have placed the proposed establishment, 



