CirtifstumtotaUft af Mxdd&cltuticttti. 



Boston, February 21, 1862. 



To the Honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives : — 



At the Annual Meeting of the Trustees of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, January 29, 1862, it was 



Voted, That the Secretary communicate to the Legislature the An- 

 nual Report of Professor Agassiz, with a statement of transactions of 

 the past year. 



On the ninth day of April last, a Resolve of the Legislature 

 was passed, by which the sum of twenty thousand dollars was 

 granted to the Museum, to be applied to the support of the Mu- 

 seum, and to the care and preservation of the collections. The 

 amount has been received, and nearly all expended upon the 

 orders of the Trustees. 



In the month of August last, the Treasurer of this Corporation 

 received of the Treasurer of the Commonwealth the first instal- 

 ment from proceeds of sales of Back Bay lands, amounting to 

 twenty thousand six hundred and fifty-seven dollars. 



In pursuance of the Eesolve, unanimously adopted by the Trus- 

 tees, October 31, 1860, that the whole amount of the principal 

 of the grant made by the Commonwealth (from the Back Bay 

 lands) shall be invested from time to time when received, and 

 that the income only of such fund shall be expended, this instal- 

 ment has been invested in the six per cent bonds of the State of 

 Massachusetts. 



