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COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to be expended by them 

 for the benefit of the Museum. 



Voted (3), That the money received for subscriptions to said 

 fund from teachers and pupils in the United States be paid over to 

 said President and Fellows ; the same to be held by them in trust 

 as a separate and distinct fund, to be called the Teachers and Pupils' 

 Fund, and the income thereof applied to the payment of the 

 expenses of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



October 26, 1874. 



At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in Bos- 

 ton, March 1,1875, the President having laid before the Board sundry 

 votes passed by the Agassiz Memorial Committee, whereby the treasurer 

 of said Committee was directed to pay over and deliver to the President 

 and Fellows certain money and investments in their hands, to be held in 

 trust, the income to be paid over to the Faculty of the Museum, to be 

 expended by them for the support of the Museum ; and also to pay over 

 to said President and Fellows a certain other sum of money received by 

 said Committee from subscriptions by teachers and pupils in the United 

 States, to be held in trust as a separate and distinct fund, the interest to 

 be paid over to the Faculty of the Museum, to be by them applied to the 

 payment of the expenses of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ; it was 

 therefore, — 



Voted, That the treasurer of the corporation is hereby authorized to 

 receive said money and property in behalf of the President and Fellows, 

 the same to be held by them in trust on the conditions in said votes 

 expressed, the income to be applied for the purposes above set forth. 



Voted, That the President express to said Memorial Committee the 

 grateful acknowledgments of the President and Fellows for this disposi- 

 tion of the money and property in their hands for the use and benefit of 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Voted, That the principal fund above mentioned be called the Agassiz 

 Memorial Fund. 



A true copy of votes from record. Attest : George Putnam, Secretary. 



Harvard University, March 2, 1875. 



Sebastian B. Schlesinger, Esq. 



Dear Sir : — I beg to express to all the members of the Agassiz Memo- 

 rial Committee the sincere and hearty acknowledgments of the President 

 and Fellows of Harvard College for the gift to them of the large fund 

 which has been procured through the exertions of the Committee, in 

 order that the memory of Prof. Louis Agassiz may be perpetuated by the 

 adequate and secure endowment of the Museum which he founded at 

 Harvard University. It will be a grateful duty for the President and 

 Fellows, in executing the trust which the Committee have laid upon them, 

 to commemorate the scientific attainments, enthusiasm, and devotion of 

 Prof. Agassiz, while they build upland enlarge the Museum of Com- 



