1876.] 



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At a subsequent meeting of the Committee, the following gentle- 

 men were appointed as a sub-committee of finance : Messrs. George 

 T. Bigelow, J. I. Bowditch, Abbott Lawrence, Theodore Lyman, 

 and S. B. Schlesinger. The name of Roger Wolcott was added as 

 secretary. 



Soon after the organization of the several sub-committees, the 

 state legislature, on motion of Mr. L. V. Gushing, Jr., passed the 

 following resolve appropriating conditionally fifty thousand dollars 

 to the Memorial Fund. 



[Resolves of 1874, chap. 44.] 

 Resolte in favor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 



Resolved, That whereas the proposed Agassiz Memorial Fund is to be 

 devoted to the completion of the Museum of Comparative Zoology as the 

 best possible recognition of the benefits conferred upon the State by the 

 labors of the great naturalist, as an educator of the whole community, 

 and to the end that said museum may, for all time, fulfil the aspirations 

 of its originator ; therefore, — 



Resolved, That when the said memorial fund shall amount to the sum 

 of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars subscribed and paid in from 

 private sources, that then there be allowed and paid from the treasury 

 to the trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology the sum of fifty 

 thousand dollars. \_Approved May 11, 1874. 



The following votes of the Agassiz Memorial Committee, and of 

 the corporation of Harvard College, and the annexed correspond- 

 ence, need no special explanation : — 



Voted^ That the subscription for the Agassiz Memorial Fund be 

 kept open till the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 

 ($250,000) be raised, in order ultimately to secure the fifty thousand 

 dollars voted conditionally by the legislative resolve of 1874. 

 October 26, 1874. 



Voted (1), That the Finance Committee be directed to pay over 

 and deliver to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, all 

 sums of money received by them, and all investments of money in 

 their hands, the proceeds of subscriptions to the Memorial Fund 

 prior to this date, except such sum as it may be necessary to reserve 

 to pay the current expenses ; the same to be paid by said committee, 

 and received by said President and Fellows, upon the condition that 

 the net income thereof be paid to the Faculty of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, to be expended by them for the benefit of 

 the Museum. 



Voted (2), That the treasurer of the fund be directed to pay, at 

 convenient times, any balance of ijiterest in his hands to the Faculty 



