1877.] 



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[E.] 



AGREEMENT 



Between the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and 

 President and Fellows of Harvard College. Dated May 6, 1876. 



This indenture, made this sixth day of May. a. d. 1876, by and 

 between the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology here- 

 inafter called the Trustees on the one part, and the President and 

 Fellows of Harvard College hereinafter called the Corporation on 

 the other part, — 



WITNESSETH I 



Whereas, Louis Agassiz, then Lawrence Professor of Zoology 

 and Geology in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, did, prior to and during the year 1858, make a valuable collec- 

 tion of objects of N atural History : 



And whereas, In the said year 1858, a fund of fifty thousand 

 dollars was given to the said Corporation by William Gray, execu- 

 tor of the last will and testament of his uncle, Francis C. Gray, 

 late of said Boston, deceased, in trust, to preserve the same as a 

 separate fund, and to appropriate the income thereof to the estab- 

 lishment and maintenance of a Museum of Comparative Zoology at 

 Harvard College ; but no part of the same to be appropriated to the 

 payment of salaries or the purchase of real estate ; which donation 

 was made and accepted on a condition that the said Museum be 

 arranged and conducted under the superintendence of a body of 

 five persons, to be denominated the Faculty of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, constituted and appointed in the manner set forth 

 in the letter of the said donor, dated December 20, 1858, to the 

 said Corporation, and accepted by vote of said Corporation of 

 December 24, 1858 : 



And whereas, The Legislature of the Commonwealth did, by Act 



