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COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Jan. '76. 



studies and writings, and I intend that m}' retention of them shall 

 onh' add to their future value and interest. 



Excuse the liaste with which I have had to write this, but I think 

 you will understand just how the matter stands, and that 3'ou are at 

 liberty to claim a prospective interest in my collection. 



Yours, 



T. M. BREWER. 



Alexander Agassiz, Esq. 



• New York, April 30, 1875. 

 Dear Sir : — I beg you will consider my collection of Corbiculidae 

 from henceforward as the propert}^ of the Museum, whether the 

 affair of the catalogue come to anything or not. I make this dona- 

 tion to the Museum free of any conditions or restrictions whatever. 

 If in a few years we do not see our wa^^ clear to the publication of a 

 catalogue, I will then send the collection to Cambridge. 



Yours, very trul}^, 



TEMPLE PRIME. 



To Alex. Agassiz. 



At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 

 in Boston, June 28, 1875, — 



Voted, That the specimens belonging to the Universitj", which 

 remain in the Anatomical Museum in Boylston Hall, be deposited 

 until the further order of this Board in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology. 



A true copy of record. Attest : 



A. G. DAVIS, Clerk. 



Alexander Agassiz, Esq., Cambridge, Masa- 



