486 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
plained to him my position with reference to the museum at Cam- 
bridge. He, therefore, knew that, should this nomination be ac- 
cepted, the duties of the director of the school must remain sub- 
ordinate to those of the director of he museum, and that the 
interests of the former would not be allowed to interfere with the 
prospects of the latter. With this cuipevation and the condition 
that Mr. Anderson would contribute the sum of $10,000 towards 
the support of Penikese for the next three years, I agreed to serve. 
This sum was considered as probably sufficient to carry on the 
undertaking until the future of the museum was assured. Of this 
$10,000 Mr. Anderson salaanioatiy forwarded $1,329.60 (the check 
mentioned by your correspondent to the trustees), notifying them 
the same time that for “ reasons satisfactory to his own mind” 
. declined to make any further pecuniary sacrifices for the school. 
Neither the rig nor the trustees could assume the responsi- 
bility thus left to t 
With this explanation I may now take up the charges of your 
correspondent. He says it was “authoritatively stated” that 
$10,000 of the Anderson Fund remained une xpended, and would 
suffice for the sessions of 1874 and 1875. No such statement was 
made, and no such sum existed. With the sanction of Mr. Ander- 
son, the bulk of the “nucleus of an endowment fund” bad been 
devoted by Professor Agassiz not only to buildings and equipment, 
but also to the running expenses of 1873. It was found, before 
not the $10,600 which figures so largely in the letter of “E,” but 
about $1,100 available to the tru With this and $1,500 
realized from the yacht Sprite, sold nk the consent of Mr. Gal- 
ne the school reopened. As far as the interests of education 
e concerned the second session was a decided success, thanks 
to “the interest taken by the teachers ; but the institution remained 
in debt, and Mr. Anderson, to whom an informal account was 
sent, contributed, as above stated, $1,329. 60 to pay the “ actual 
deficit.” This left the trustees to provide for existing —s 
oe sie to signify to Mr. Anderson the eir intention of closing 
all times been kept fully informed, partly by letters 
‘ana pa ty in conversation, of its 5 eondeidols and prospects, as far as 
they were known to the trustees themselve 
__ They made eerery ot to save the shoo to put it on a safe 
dation, to ranty fund of $3,000 
‘was eksiaken, & ya 2 cneber at Professo Y Mieik ’s family, and a 
‘igh : 2 potnoneat he oan from the publi would have ena- 
they close with deep 
ing sue sa b auppor wey. decided to wind up the 
