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the application of the income thereof, for the purposes and objects de- 

 clared in this clause of my will shall be made by the trustees, under the 

 direction of the American Philosophical Society, of Philadelphia. 



Extract from the codicil to the will of Alexander Dallas Bache, dated July 



15, 1863. 



Item. My will is that upon the death of my wife all the rest and resi- 

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

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

 passed the third day of March, A. D. 18G3, whom I hereby appoint 

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

 rection in the said clause named. 



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

 being to direct the application of the income of my residuar.v estate, or 

 to continue its existence by filling vacancies occurring inJthcir body, 

 the application of the income thereof for the purposes and objects de- 

 clared in the said clause shall be made under the 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 the purposes aforesaid to be made by the same persons, and 

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



C. 

 CORCORAN 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 the dedi- 

 cation upon its front. 



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

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

 rupted by the breaking out of the late civil war, when the 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 cherished hope to have placed the proposed establishment, 

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