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DEED OF THE LAND. 



To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, the President and 

 Fellows of Harvard College send Greeting : 



Whereas it has been agreed by a contract entered into on the day 

 of the date of this instrument by and between the Trustees of the 

 Museum. of Comparative Zoology on the one part, and the President 

 and Fellows of Harvard College on the other part, the object of which 

 agreement is to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and use 

 of a Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge ; and whereas it 

 was among other things in and by said contract agreed between the 

 parties, that the said President and Fellows would transfer and convey 

 to said Trustees and their successors in fee upon a nominal con- 

 sideration a parcel of land situated in Cambridge, which tract and par- 

 cel of land is hereafter specially described, and also the collection of 

 articles already acquired by said President and Fellows, towards the 

 formation of such a Museum, and their interest in all additions here- 

 after to be made, to be held in strict trust by said Trustees upon the 

 terms, conditions, and trusts therein specified, and hereinafter stated. 



Now, Therefore, Know Ye, that the President and Fellows of Har- 

 vard College, in consideration of the premises and of one dollar to 

 them in hand paid by the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, 

 grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, and quitclaim to the said Trustees 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, their successors and assigns, 

 the collection aforesaid, together with all that tract and parcel of 

 land situated in Cambridge, and bounded and described as follows, to 

 wit : Commencing at the southeast corner of the granted premises 

 at the corner of a fence by land of Saunders, thence running westerly 

 by land of said Saunders, as the fence stands, about three hundred 

 and thirty-seven feet to the corner; thence northerly by lands of 

 Torrey, of Wait, and of Stone and Jarvis, about three hundred and 

 ninety-eight and one half feet to an angle ; thence a little east of 

 north by land of Stone and Jarvis, about fifty-eight feet ; thence 

 by land of Stone and Jarvis, about fifty-three and one half feet 

 to a corner; thence northeasterly by land of Stone and Jarvis and 



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