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APPENDIX A. 

 From the Will of William Brewster. 



Fourth. My collection of mounted birds and of bird skins, nests and 

 eggs with the cases and cabinets that contain them and all my manuscripts, 

 catalogues of the birds, bird skins, nests and eggs, and my guns, collecting 

 pistols and various things appertaining to them, together with my oil painted 

 copy of Healey's painting of Audubon, and my manuscript note books and 

 journals I. give to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, imposing no conditions affecting this 

 bequest, but hereby expressing my desire that the collection be kept essentially 

 intact and the hope that both specimens and manuscripts may be so dealt 

 with as to render useful service to ornithologists, instead of lying unconsulted 

 and half forgotten as has sometimes happened to similar material deposited 

 in large museums. It is further my wish that free access, under such precau- 

 tionary rules as the institution may see fit to impose, be at all times afforded 

 to ornithologists who may wish to examine or study the specimens. 



Fifth. Such of the printed books in my library as relate to natural history 

 I give as follows : — To the President and Fellows of Harvard College to be 

 added to the library of said Museum of Comparative Zoology such as are 

 not duplicates of those in said Museum library at the time of my death * * * 



Sixth (a) To the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, the sum of sixty thousand (60,000) 

 dollars, three quarters of the income thereof to be used exclusively for the 

 payment, or part payment, of the salary of a competent ornithologist, who 

 shall take charge of my collection hereinabove given to said Museum and the 

 remaining one-quarter to be used at the discretion of the Director of the 

 Museum for the increase of the collection by purchase, or for the renewal or 

 repair of the cases, or for the publication of matter contained in my manuscripts. 



APPENDIX B. 

 Louis Agassiz to Richard Bliss, Jr. 



Cambridge, May 7th, 1867. 



Dear Sir, 



I have duly received your note and take pleasure in answering it in a man- 

 ner which I trust may be satisfactory. Mr. Thayer's liberality towards the 

 Museum and the students connected with it has hardly any limit. You may 

 be assured that if you answer my expectations you will want nothing that may 

 contribute to your progress. But in proportion as the facilities thus afforded 

 are complete, it becomes my duty to be careful how and on whom they are 



