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 sura 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 vfife 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 

 th'eir 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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