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COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Mar. 



[B.] 



ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT 



Between the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 AND the President and Fellows of Harvard College, as 

 Amended by Concurrent Yote of the Trustees, January 28, 



1874, AND OF THE PRESIDENT AND FeLLOWS, JANUARY 30, 1874. 



1. Each corporation shall retain and manage the funds now 

 held, or which may hereafter be held by it, according to the 

 trusts on Avhich the same have been or may be given. 



2. The property in the Museum, land, buildings, furniture 

 and collections, present and future, shall be vested in said 

 Trustees, in trust, to hold the same for the uses declared by 

 these Articles of Agreement, and for such uses as may here- 

 after be declared, as hereinafter provided. 



3. Each corporation shall retain the power to appropriate 

 from the funds under its control such sums as it may deem 

 expedient. 



4. The duty and power of erecting buildings from funds 

 appropriated and set apart for that purpose, and of adding to 

 aud extending the same hereafter, as funds shall be appropri- 

 ated for that purpose, upon plans which shall render such 

 buildings part of a com]3lete and harmonious whole ; and the 

 duty of taking care of said buildings, and causing them to be 

 kept in repair, shall devolve upon and vest in said Trustees. 



5. The Committee of the Trustees on the Museum shall, 

 by inspections from time to time, and by communications with 

 the Faculty, assure themselves that duplicate specimens are 

 distributed, by exchange or otherwise, among other colleges 

 and institutions of learning, in this Commonwealth and else- 

 where, so far as may be done consistently with the interests 

 of the institution ; that the Museum belonging to said Trustees ! 

 shall, at all reasonable times, and under reasonable regula- 



