36 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Feb. 



TERMS OF THE GRAY DONATION. 



At a stated meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard Col- 

 lege in Boston, December 24, 1858, the President read another com- 

 munication from William Gray, Esq., as follows : — 



Boston, December 20, 1858. 

 To the President and Fellows of Harvard College : — 



My uncle, Francis C. Gray, at the time of executing his last will, 

 by which he made me his residuary legatee, addressed to me a letter 

 with these clauses : — 



" After providing fully for all the bequests in my will, including 

 that to yourself, if there shall remain, two years after my death, a 

 surplus beyond everything given in my will as above, then I wish 

 you would out of that surplus, and not otherwise, give to Harvard 

 College, or to such other institution as you see fit, my collection of 

 Engravings, with all books relating to that subject, including Rossel- 

 lini, Audubon, and Wilson, etc., together with sixteen thousand dol- 

 lars, of which one thousand and the income are to be appropriated in 

 the first place to keeping the same in order, and to publishing a cata- 

 logue of the same as I leave it. 



" And also give, out of such surplus only, to Harvard College, or 

 such other institution as you see fit, the further sum of fifty thousand 

 dollars ; the income to be applied to establishing and maintaining a 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology ; not to be appended to any other 

 department ; but to be under the charge of an independent Faculty, 

 responsible only to the Corporation and Overseers. No part of said 

 income is to be expended for real estate or for the payment of salaries." 



He also desires me to impose such conditions and restrictions on these 

 donations as I may see fit. The two years mentioned in his letter 

 will expire on the twenty-ninth day of December current. 



I have already presented the collection of Engravings to the Col- 

 lege, and in another letter of this date, I placed at its disposal the 

 Fund designated in the first of the clauses cited in this communica- 

 tion. 



In compliance with my uncle's request, I offer to give to Harvard 



