BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 9) 
bury, called Woodland Hill; but for certain considerations, which 
were satisfactory to her, she relinquished her life-estate in a 
' field of about seven acres, called the Plain-field, which was desig- 
nated by Mr. Bussey as the site of the building for the Bussey 
Institution. The indentures which contain this agreement bear 
date July 1 and September 5, 1870. Simultaneously (July 8, 
1870) the trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting 
Agriculture, desiring to aid in building up an establishment for 
carrying on agricultural experiments and investigations and dif- 
fusing a knowledge of sound agricultural principles and methods, 
granted to the President and Fellows of Harvard College $3,000 
“for the support of a laboratory, and for experiments in agricul- 
tural chemistry to be conducted on the Bussey estate,” and, in 
view of the time needed for agricultural inquiries, passed a reso- 
lution that, “in the opinion of the trustees of this society, the 
annual sum of $3,000 should be continued for a term of not less 
than five years.” Accordingly, in each succeeding year, the 
trustees of the society have given $3,000 to the President and 
_ Fellows; but one half of the second grant was used, at the: re- 
quest of the trustees, for the department of horticulture at the 
Bussey Institution, and one half of the ‘third for the Botanic. 
Garden at Cambridge. Since September 1, 1870, the President 
and Fellows have erected uyfon the Plain-field, in accordance 
with the directions given in Mr. Bussey’s will, a handsome 
stone building, containing a lecture-room, a laboratory with suit- 
able store-rooms and a glass-house in connection therewith, a 
library-room, an office, three recitation-rooms, some chambers, 
and several large rooms to receive illustrative collections. The 
grounds and avenues have been prepared, glass-houses, sheds, 
and hot-beds for the department of horticulture have been 
built and stocked, and a permanent water-supply for the whole 
estate has been contrived and constructed. On September 1, 
1873, there remained of the fund accumulated. for purposes of 
building and equipment, $21,544.93. The laboratory was not 
equipped and ready for occupation until the last week of 1871, 
since which date agricultural researches have been steadily pros- 
