26 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. 



[Feb. 



Made and executed at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and Common- 

 wealth of Massachusetts, on the fourteenth day of June, in the year 

 of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by and be- 

 tween the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, on the one 

 part, and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, on the other 

 part : — 



Whereas, Louis Agassiz, Lawrence Professor of Zoology and Geology 

 in the Scientific School of Harvard University, has made a valuable col- 

 lection of objects of Natural History, classified and arranged in such a 

 manner as to illustrate and teach the principles of the science of 

 Zoology, upon a systematic plan, which collection is at present con- 

 tained in a perishable wooden building belonging to the said College ; 

 And whereas, a fund of fifty thousand dollars has been already 

 given to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by William 

 Gray, in compliance with the request and from the estate of Francis 

 C. Gray, late of said Boston, deceased, in trust to preserve the same 

 as a separate fund, and to appropriate the income thereof to the estab- 

 lishment and maintenance of a Museum of Comparative Zoology at 

 Harvard College, but no part of the same to be appropriated to the 

 payment of salaries or to the purchase of real estate, which donation 

 was made and accepted on a condition that the said Museum be 

 arranged and conducted under the superintendence of a body of five 

 persons to be denominated the Faculty of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, and constituted as follows, to wit : — 



The President of the University for the time being to constitute the 

 head, the four other members, being men conversant with this depart- 

 ment of science, having in the first instance been nominated by the 

 donor of said fund, and approved by the said President and Fellows, and 

 thus said Faculty being already organized and established ; but consti- 

 tuted with this further provision, that whenever a vacancy, other than 

 that of the President, shall occur in said Faculty, it shall be the duty 

 of the remaining members to nominate a person of suitable qualifica- 

 tions to supply the vacancy, and notify such nomination to the Pres- 



