HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
Harvarp UNIVERSITY, 15th November, 1873. 
_ Tue experiments and investigations made at the 
Bussey Institution will be published from time to time 
in a “ Bulletin.” 
It seemed fitting that the first number of the Bulletin 
should contain some account of the origin, objects, and 
resources of the Institution. 
THE Bussey Institution is a School of Agriculture and Horti- 
culture, established as. a department of Harvard University under 
the trusts created by the will of Benjamin Bussey of Roxbury, 
Massachusetts, bearing date July 30, 1835. 
Mr. Bussey’s will was proved and allowed on the first Tues- 
day of March, 1842. It conveyed his estate, real and personal, 
to seven trustees, who were required to pay legacies amounting 
to about nineteen thousand dollars, and annuities amounting to 
about twelve thousand dollars a year; to give to the widow the 
occupation of an estate in Boston for her life; to give to the 
widow, to Francis C. Head, Esq., and to his granddaughter, Mrs. 
Thomas Motley, in succession, the occupation for life of his estate 
in West Roxbury called Woodland Hill; and finally, after these 
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