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ir records, and vote to accept the same 
The conditions above prescribed are most judicious. The object for 
which the fund is established, in their nature cannot change. But there 
sill remained other objects which imperatively demanded to be provided 
for, The collections of Professor Agassiz are at present in a small wooden 
building, which the torch of an incendiary might in an hour reduce to 
és, and thus annihilate the fruit of twelve years toil. Attention has 
been repeatedly called to this subject, and the announcement that Mr. 
William Gray, in the exercise of the discretion vested in him by his 
uncle’s will, had decided to give the fifty thousand dollars for the support 
“Tenth, That the Corporation enter this donation, with its conditions, 
upon. the ad 
give 
extract from this document, which has been printed by order of the 
erseers, 
“Thave laid out a plan which I will simply submit to you. m 
afraid you will consider it extravagant, but if I understand rightly the 
*plrations of the young men with whom I am every day brought into 
“My hope is that there shall arise upon the grounds of Harvard a 
pear of Natural History, which shall compete with the British 
psy and with the Jardin des Plantes. Do not say it cannot be done, 
be you cannot suppose that what exists in England and France cannot 
, 1 i ope even that we shall found a museum 
th ay upon a more suitable foundation and better qualified 
di wi ty the highest interests of science than these institutions of the 
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"Fy although I have sketched a plan for such a museum, I am never- 
fully aware that, at the beginning, it must be carried out ina 
eg) commensurate with the probable means that may be secured. 
$50,000 erect a wing of that ideal museum, at an expense of perhaps 
wre if that is too much, let us limit ourselves to such rooms as 
cr fitting shelter to the collections already on hand, and secure 
the danger of fire and other casualties. A spark of fire in 
’ be sufficient to destroy in half an hour the collections 
ype has cost me twelve years to amass, and which I can truly say is 
; in some of its classes, superior to any in the world. The 
Fy Possibility of unpacking what ‘is pase in our possession. under 
the studen together in barrels and boxes, inaccessible to myself or 
for ing them to the public, and making them useful 
student tsPlayi 
the on 2” ier Thave not the slightest doubt, be a sufficient stimulus in 
ae it worthy of the institution with which it will be connected, 
enlightened people who understand that in our age, culture is the 
