18 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



[Feb. 



"that no further appropriation whatever, on account of the 

 Museum, can be made by this Board until November 1, 1861." 

 The property and resources of the Museum are : — 



1. Land and building in Cambridge. ■ 



2. Collections. 



3. State grant, $ 100,000, no part of which has yet been re- 

 ceived. 



4. Annual income of the Gray Fund of $50,000, held by 

 Harvard College. 



The Trustees have unanimously resolved to incur no debt, and 

 the Preamble and Resolution adopted with the Report, marked 

 D, provide that the whole amount of the principal of the grant 

 made by the Commonwealth shall be funded, and the income 

 only of such fund expended. 



Professor Agassiz has cordially concurred with the policy 

 adopted by the Trustees, as best designed to promote the per- 

 manent prosperity of the Museum, although the immediate effect 

 has been to place the burden of carrying it on upon him, except- 

 ing so far as the income of the Gray Fund, appropriated to 

 specific objects, gives him relief. The Museum now requires 

 means to carry on its active operations, until it derive an income 

 from the State grant, and to preserve the accumulated specimens 

 without encroaching upon its capital. These accumulations, not 

 yet arranged, are equal to those already in place, and thesum 

 required to take proper care of them, and to continue the 

 regular work now in progress, is stated by the Professor at 

 twenty thousand dollars. 



The Trustees respectfully request the legislature to make a 

 grant to the Museum to meet its existing exigencies, and to 

 relieve Professor Agassiz. 



On behalf, and in the name of the Trustees, 



WM. GRAY, Secretary. 



