BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 8 
ing of over two hundred acres of land, as a place in my judgment well 
adapted, from the great variety and excellence of its soil, its hills, val- 
leys, and water, its great diversity of surface and exposure, and lastly, 
its high state of cultivation and improvement, for all the objects con- 
templated. That they will establish there a course of instruction in 
practical agriculture, in useful and ornamental gardening, in botany, 
and in such other branches of natural science as may tend to promote 
a knowledge of practical agriculture and the various arts subservient 
thereto and connected therewith, and cause such courses of lectures to 
be delivered there at such seasons of the year and under such regula- 
tions as they may think best adapted to promote the ends designed ; 
and also to furnish gratuitous aid, if they shall think it expedient, to 
such meritorious persons as may resort there for instruction: the in- 
“And it is my will that one half of the net income of all my 
estates and property so conveyed to said President and Fellows of 
Harvard College shall be appropriated to the support of said institu- 
tion, and of such branches of instruction in the physical sciences, 
there or at Harvard College, as are subservient thereto, and con- 
nected with the great objects of said institution; and it is my will 
that the other half of the net income of said estates and property so 
conveyed to said President and Fellows of Harvard College shall be 
annually appropriated, one half thereof to the encouragement and 
promotion of theological education, and the other moiety to the 
encouragement and promotion of legal education in said College, by 
the endowment of professorships or scholarships in the Theological 
and Law Schools respectively ; by the purchase of books, erection of 
buildings, and by such other means as may in their judgment render 
the income of the property hereby appropriated most available in the 
accomplishment of the objects proposed. .... . 
* And being desirous that every proper accommodation should be 
secured for the officers and pupils of said institution, I hereby order 
and direct my trustees, as soon as they shall deem it expedient and 
consistent with the state of the trust funds, to cause to be erected on 
the ‘Plain-field,” so called, next easterly of my farm garden, and 
bounded southeasterly on the road running from said ‘ Woodland 
Hill’ to Boston, an edifice, with convenient outbuildings, suitable in 
all respects for said institution: the said edifice to be not less than 
