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fame course shall be afterwards adopted when the place of the successor of either 
_. of them shall become vacant; but any vacancy oceasioned by the death, resigna- 
_ tion or otherwise, of any of the other persons named in this Act (except the mem- 
bers designated ex-officiis), or of the successors of such persons, shall Ned by 
‘lection by the whole board of Trustees, at meetings specially called for that purpose. 
_ Seortoy 4. The said Trustees shall arrange, so far as may be done consistently 
With the interests of the institution, for the distribution of duplicate specimens, by 
“exchange or otherwise, among other colleges and institutions of learning in this 
ere. And the Museum belonging to said Trustees shall, 
at all ce ggg times, and under reasonable regulations, be kept open to the public 
of charge. 
SEcTion rd This act shall take effect from and after its passage.” 
5, Conservatory of Art and Science-—By force of that “ perpetual 
senination” which Lord Bacon says is ever the surest sign of a great 
principle, Agassiz’s example has awakened, it seems, in the whole body 
politic in Massachusetts a noble zeal to secure for the citizens of the whole 
State a truly National Museum, on the broad plan of the British Museum, 
or rather, it is said, to unite the features of the Paris Garden of Plants 
with the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, to be located at Boston and 
endowed and sustained by the public purse. This movement promises to 
be successful as soon as a proper plan is matured, The Committee on 
Education commended it to the legislature in the strongest manner, and 
ton and the Commonwealth prevented its taking the form of Jaw a month 
The source of endowment is to be also the Back Bay lands. The 
spirit of Boston and its commonwealth is adequate not merely to conceiv- 
ing, but to giving practical efficiency to any plan for a great public mu- 
eum which the wisdom of its citizens may elaborate; for there, is ever 
found the happy union of the designing mind and the executive hand— 
the ability both to say and to pay. 
6. Legacy to Yale College, New Haven—The bequest of the Hon. 
Henry L. Ellsworth to Yale College, amounting, it is estimated, to two 
or three hundred thousand dollars, is appropriated by the will to scholar- 
ships, and is therefore rather a gift to the public than to the College itself, 
he will is to be contested and the issue is doubtful, If ec the 
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commenced the publication of a monthly Journal of thirty-two large 
weIAvO pages. Th 
uragement. We wish it complete success. st 
The object of the Journal, as stated in the introduction, is to furnish 
ind Statistics; and to create among its membe 
Secure their hearty co-operation in the promotion of its objects. In the 
‘Sented seems indispensable to their proper elucidation and publication, 
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only certain considerations of a private nature between the City of Bos- — 
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