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And whereas, the said Trustees are ready and willing to accept and 

 receive a conveyance in fee of the said parcel of land, upon the con- 

 ditions and trusts specified, and thereupon to proceed as soon as may 

 be to the commencement of buildings thereon for the purposes speci- 

 fied : — 



Now, therefore, the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for them- 

 selves and their respective successors, do hereby mutually agree to 

 unite the means with which they have been or may hereafter 

 be respectively intrusted for that purpose, for the establishment, 

 maintenance, and practical usefulness of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Cambridge, and do hereby agree upon and establish the 

 following Rules and Regulations for the government, occupation, care 

 and management of the said institution. 



1. Each Corporation shall retain and manage the funds now held, 

 or which may hereafter be held by it, according to the trusts on 

 which the same have been or may be given. 



2. The property in the Museum, land, buildings, furniture, and 

 collections, present and future, shall be vested in said Trustees, in 

 trust, to hold the same for the uses declared by these Articles of 

 Agreement, and for such uses as may hereafter be declared as herein- 

 after provided. 



3. Each Corporation shall retain the power to appropriate from the 

 funds under its control such sums as it may deem expedient. 



4. The duty and power of erecting buildings from funds appropri- 

 ated and set apart for that purpose, and of adding to and extending 

 the same hereafter, as funds shall be appropriated for that purpose, 

 upon plans which shall render such buildings part of a complete and 

 harmonious whole ; and the duty of taking care of said buildings, 

 and causing them to be kept in repair, shall devolve upon and vest in 

 said Trustees. 



5. The Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, an officer 

 appointed or to be appointed by said Trustees, shall make arrange- 

 ments, under the supervision of the Faculty aforesaid, for the recep- 

 tion of visitors, either upon special or general invitation, and of the 

 public at large, at suitable times and* under suitable regulations, to 



