KKCORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



GASSIOT DECLARATION OF TRUST 



'I'll IS INDFVn'UE made the twenty-ninth day of June one thousand eight 

 hundred and eventy-onc HKTWKKN JOHN PETER GASSIOT of Clapham 

 Common in the county of Surrey Esquire F.R.S. of the one part and THE 

 I'HKSIDFNT COUNCIL AND FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



(hereinafter called the said Royal Society) of the other part. 



\Vnri; i A- the said John Feter Gassiot is possessed of Italian Irrigation 

 Bonds of the nominal value of Ten thousand pounds having the security of the 

 Italian Government besides being secured on the revenues of the Cavour Canal. 



As.. \\ in aEAfl the said John Peter Gas'siot is desirous of devoting the said 

 Bonds and the produce thereof and the income thereof to the purposes herein- 

 after expressed and accordingly has caused the said Bonds (which pass by 

 delivery) to be handed over to the said Royal Society, and the same are now 

 in tlu-ir custody as they do hereby acknowledge. 



\ TMJS INDKMI UK WITNESSETH and it is hereby agreed and declared 

 l>et \\een and by the persons parties hereto and the said John Peter Gassiot 

 nor u by this deed which is intended to be executed by him in the presence 

 of and to be attested by two credible witnesses and to be forthwith enrolled 

 in the High Court of Chancery DIRECT that the said Royal Society their 

 igns shall hold the said Bonds and the moneys thereby 

 secured as a fund for the purpose of assisting and carrying on and continuing 



letical and meteorological observations with self-recording instruments 

 and am other physical investigations that may from time to time be found 

 practicable and desirable in the Kew Observatory in the Old Deer Park at 

 Richmond in the County of Surrey now belonging to Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment or in the event of that Government at any time declining or ceasing to 

 continue placing that building at the disposition of the said Royal Society 

 then in any other suitable building that the Council for the time being of the 



Koyul Societv may determine. 



D for tin- carrying out of such purpose as aforesaid upon trust that the 

 K M\al Society their successors and assigns shall receive the principal 

 moncy> secured by the said Bonds as and when they shall be compellable to 

 me and (subject to the proviso hereinafter contained for rein- 

 id principal moneys on like Italian Irrigation Bonds if the 

 lie obtained) invest the moneys to be received by them as aforesaid 

 in the name off he said Royal Society their successors or assigns in or upon 

 any Parliamentary Mocks or public funds of Great Britain or on the Stock of 

 i'> mil .f F.ngland or Ireland or any Fast India Stock or at interest upon 

 d or leasehold securities in England Wales or Ireland either 



