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having purchased the extensive collection of Mammals, Birds, Pishes, &c, 

 belonging to the late Prince of Neuwied, the Elliot collection of Birds, besides 

 a part of the Verraux and other collections of specimens of Natural History, 

 desire to know if the Commissioners of the Central Park will receive them on 

 deposit within the Central Park, and they would suggest the following as the 

 conditions upon which they would like to deposit them, viz. : 



First — The Commissioners of the Park to provide accommodations in the 

 two upper stories of the building known as the Arsenal and such other rooms 

 as shall from time to time be necessary for the exhibition of the collections 

 deposited by the American Museum, and shall cause them to be furnished with 

 glass cases suitable for the preservation and exhibition of such collections. 



Second — The Trustees of the American Museum to employ their own Cura- 

 tors for the care and arrangement of their collection, and to pay them their 

 salaries, ah such persons to be subject to the regulations of the Park Com- 

 missioners. 



Third — The Police force for the protection of the property and the employees 

 for the cleansing and general care of the rooms to be employed and paid by the 

 Park Commissioners. 



Fourth — The Trustees and Curators of the American Museum to have free 

 access at all reasonable times to the rooms occupied by their collections. 



Fifth — The collections so deposited to be exhibited to the public at least 

 three days in the week in the name of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, the Trustees to have the right to close the collections at such times as 

 shall be necessary for the arrangement and rearranging of the specimens sub- 

 ject to the regulations of the Park Commissioners. 



Sixth — The collections already acquired, and those which may from to time 

 be acquired and so deposited, to remain the property of the American Museum 

 of Natural History to be removed by them immediately after the expiration of 

 six months' previous notice in writing to the Commissioners of the Park, or 

 within six months after receiving a written notice from the Commissioners, 

 asking them to withdraw their property from the Park. 



Awaiting the favor of an early reply, I am, 



Very truly, yours, 

 W. A. Haines, Chairman, Executive Committee. 



Office of The Board of Commissioners of The Central Park, ) 

 Bank of Commerce Building, 31 Nassau St., New York, Jan. 21, 1870. ) 



Dear Sir — T have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 

 the 23d ultimo, relating to the deposits of certain collections with the Park 

 Commissioners by the American Museum of Natural History. The terms upon 

 which it is proposed to make these deposits are such, as will, I think, secure 

 the object that the Museum and the Park Commissioners equally desire ; to 

 wit, an establishment that shall afford opportunity for popular instruction and 

 amusement, and for the advancement of the Natural Sciences. If the plan 

 which insures and combines in this enterprise the interests and means of the 



