16 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Feb. 



At a meeting of the Trustees, June 1, 1859, Articles of Agree- 

 ment with Harvard College, reported by the Committee of Con- 

 ference, were adopted Under these Articles, and a deed of con- 

 veyance by the corporation, the Trustees became the owners of 

 a tract of land formerly the property of the College, and their 

 interest in the collection, to be held on certain trusts, and to 

 be managed in conformity with the provisions contained in the 

 Articles. 



The Lawrence Professor of Zoology in the Scientific School 

 was made the Curator and scientific head of the Museum, subject 

 to the control of the Faculty of the Museum ; and the general 

 management of the institution for the purposes of instruction 

 was vested in such Faculty ; the Corporation of the College, and 

 the Trustees of the Museum, reserving the general supervision. 



The Director of the Museum, appointed by the Trustees, is to 

 make arrangements, under the supervision of the same Faculty, 

 to secure to the public the freest enjoyment of, and access to, the 

 Museum, consistent with its use for scientific and educational 

 purposes. 



The Curator is required to give lectures and instruction to 

 regular classes of students under his care, to classes of teachers 

 of the public schools, and to classes of pupils in the Normal 

 Schools in the Commonwealth, for which he receives no other 

 compensation than his salary as Professor of the Lawreuce 

 Scientific School. 



The pamphlet annexed, marked A, printed by order of the 

 Trustees, contains the Act incorporating this Board, the Act in 

 aid of the Museum, By-Laws, Articles of Agreement with Har- 

 vard College and deed of land, terms of the Gray donation, and 

 Constitution of the Faculty of the Museum, and the private 

 subscription, with the names of the contributors. 



Professor Agassiz, on November 10, 1859, presented to the 

 Trustees the collection made by him since the year 1852, and 

 any claim which he might have for his care and expenses in 

 preserving the earlier collection. He had then expended, from 



