4 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
ten rods from said road ; the exterior walls thereof to be built of stone 
in blocks (not hammered), or to be similar to the front wall of the 
‘Masonic Temple,’ so called, in said Boston. And I earnestly enjoin . 
it upon my trustees to have the said edifice constructed and completed 
with a proper regard to durability and beauty, and so as best to secure 
the comfort and convenience of the inmates of said building.” 
The will further provided that in case the President and Fel- 
lows of Harvard College, after the decease of Mrs. Bussey, should 
take upon themselves the payment of the annuities and other 
sums given by the will and the performance of all the other trusts 
enjoined upon. the trustees, it should be the duty of the trustees 
immediately to pay over, transfer, and convey to the said Presi-. 
dent and Fellows all the trust estates, real and-personal, remain- 
ing in their hands. . | 
Under this provision, in May, 1861, the trustees transferred all 
the property in their possession to the President and Fellows at 
a valuation of $413,290.69, exclusive of the Woodland Hill 
estate. At the time of this transfer the amount of the annuities 
was $9,300, the income of the whole property was $32,130, and 
the Woodland Hill estate was occupied by Mrs. Thomas Motley. 
The President and Fellows immediately applied one quarter of 
the net income of the property to the uses of the Divinity School, 
and another quarter to the uses of the Law School, and directed 
that the remaining half should be carried year by year to a fund 
which should accumulate at compound interest. This fund 
they proposed to use for building purposes whenever it should 
become their duty to organize and equip the “Bussey Insti- 
tution.” 
Nine years later, in the spring of 1870, the President and Fel- 
lows began the organization of the school of agriculture and 
horticulture which Mr. Bussey had planned and provided for 
thirty-five years before. The income of the property had risen 
to $38,187, the annuities had fallen to $7,100, and the accumu- 
lating fund for purposes of building and equipment had reached 
$75,076.94. Mrs. Motley still occupied the estate at West Rox- 
