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ident and Fellows, and, on being approved by them, such person to 

 become a member of said Faculty, with the rights and powers incident 

 thereto ; 



And whereas, the funds and means of the said President and Fellows, 

 at their disposal for this purpose, are inadequate to accomplish the 

 object contemplated, and a strong desire has been expressed by the 

 friends of science that increased means may be speedily afforded, not 

 only for the security and preservation of the collection already made, 

 but also for the establishment of the said Museum on a permanent 

 foundation, that it may be enlarged and made as far as practicable 

 complete, so as to extend and render more exact the knowledge of this 

 department of Natural History upon scientific principles, and in pur- 

 suance thereof, the Legislature of the Commonwealth did, at their 

 last session, make an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars, 

 which may soon be available for the erection, support, and maintenance 

 of a Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge, upon a condition, 

 however, that a like amount shall have been obtained, by private sub- 

 scription, in aid of such Institution, and did, at the same session, 

 incorporate a Board of Fifteen Trustees, by an Act entitled " An Act 

 to incorporate the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology," 

 by which last Act it is provided, that the sum of fifty thousand dollars, 

 theretofore contributed in aid of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 by William Gray, shall be deemed to be a part of the sum required to 

 be raised by private subscription for the said Museum, as a condition 

 precedent to the payment, by the Commonwealth to said Trustees, of 

 any part of the sum then granted ; 



And whereas, more than fifty thousand dollars, to wit, a sum 

 amounting at present to about seventy thousand dollars, making, 

 together with the donation of said William Gray, more than one hun- . 

 dred thousand dollars, have been subscribed and raised by private 

 persons, and by them ordered to be paid to the said Trustees thus 

 incorporated, to be appropriated and applied to the same objects with 

 the sum appropriated by the State, so that the said condition has 

 been complied with ; 



And whereas, it is deemed desirable by all parties interested in 

 this object, that all the means placed under the control of either 

 Corporation, the Trustees of the Museum, or the President and 



