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by a committee appointed at a meeting held on the 21st of 

 January, 1859, of a fireproof building in Cambridge, suitable to 

 receive, to protect, and to exhibit advantageously and freely to all 

 comers, at all proper times, and under reasonable conditions, the col- 

 lection of objects in Natural Science, brought together by Professor 

 Louis Agassiz, with such additions as may hereafter be made to it ; 

 and, Second, for such other purposes as in the judgment of the same 

 committee, and under such conditions as they may prescribe, will best 

 promote the study and advancement of the science which this col- 

 lection is intended to teach and illustrate ; the committee referred to 

 as intrusted with these powers and these duties being Jacob Bigelow, 

 George Ticknor, James Lawrence, William W. Greenough, Samuel 

 Hooper, Thomas G. Cary, Samuel G. Ward, John M. Forbes, William 

 S. Bullard, James M. Barnard, Ezra Lincoln, Theodore Lyman, Martin 

 Brimmer, Franklin Haven, and Gardner Brewer. And these persons 

 shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own number, to act by 

 a major part of those present, all having been duly notified, and to 

 delegate such parts of their powers from time to time, as they may 

 deem expedient, to committees of their own number, or to other 

 pe^ons," — 



To be held, used, and appropriated by the said corporation for the 

 purposes above-mentioned, as fully and effectually as the same could 

 have been used and appropriated by us. 



Jacob Bigelow. 

 George Ticknor. 

 James Lawrence. 

 William W. Greenough. 

 S. Hooper. 

 Thomas G. Cary. 

 Samuel G. Ward. 

 W. S. Bullard. 

 J. M. Forbes. 

 Ezra Lincoln. 

 Theodore Lyman. 

 M. Brimmer. 

 Franklin Haven. 

 James M. Barnard. 

 Gardner Brewer. 

 Boston, April 30, 1859. 



