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From page 359...
... XVI. The treasurer is authorized to defray, when approved by the president, all the proper expenses of committees appointed to make scientific investigations at the request of departments of the Government, and in each case to look to the department requesting the investigation for reimbursement to the academy.
From page 360...
... 360 APPENDICES session of the academy, provided the same shall be approved by a majority of the members present.
From page 361...
... As to all the rest and residue of my Estate, including the sum of Five thousand dollars placed at the disposal of my wife in case she should not desire to make any disposition of the same, I direct my executors hereinafter named to apply the income thereof after the death of my wife according to and under the directions of Joseph Henry of Washington, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce of Harvard College, Massachusetts, to the prosecution of researches in Physical and Natural Science by assisting experimentalists and observers in such manner and in such sums as shall be agreed upon by the three abovenamed gentlemen, or any two of them, whom I constitute a Board of Direction for the application of the income of my residuary estate for the above objects, after the death of my said wife. The class of subjects to be selected by this Board, and the results of such observations and experiments, to be published at the expense of my Trust Estate under their direction out of the income thereof but without encroaching on the principal.
From page 362...
... My will further is that in case of any failure of the Board for the time being to direct the application of the income of my residuary estate or . ~ ~ ~ to continue its existence by filling vacancies occurring in their body, the application of the income thereof for the purposes and objects declared in the said clause shall be made under the Direction of The National Academy of Sciences instead of The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia.
From page 363...
... ~624 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, which I have directed to be sold, the sum of five hundred dollars to my nephew, Henry Wood Baehe, for his clown use and benefit. I further direct my executor to invest five thousand dollars of the proceeds of sale of said house in his own name as trustee in such securities as he may think proper, and to pay the income thereof to my nephew, Henry Wood Bache, during his natural life.
From page 364...
... The Trustee shall have power at any time in its discretion to sell said bonds or any of them and execute a proper assignment thereof to the purchaser or purchasers, and shall invest the proceeds thereof and all moneys forming a part of said fund, and keep the same invested in such securities and in such manner as its constitution shall provide for the investment of its property or as shall be authorized by law for the investment of trust funds. Third.
From page 365...
... Second. In trust to use the interest, and income thereof for the purpose of striking a gold medal which shall be called the " Henry Draper Medal," shall be of the value of Two hundred dollars, and shall be struck in a die to be selected and presented to said National Aeademy of Seienees by me, the said Mary Anna Palmer Draper.
From page 366...
... In trust that, if at any time or times the interest or income of the said trust fund of Six thousand dollars shall exceed the amount necessary for the striking of said medal, and the care of the said die and of the fund, such surplus over or above the sum or sums so rquired for the purposes of the trust as hereinbefor-e recited and set forth shall be used in such manner as shall be selected by said National Academy of Sciences in aid of investigations and work in astronomical physics to be made and carried on by a citizen or citizens of the United States of America. And the said National Academy of Sciences cloth signify its acceptance of the said fund of Six thousand dollars, and cloth engage to hold and manage the same upon the trusts and for the uses and purposes herein mentioned and set forth.
From page 367...
... THE BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD FUND WOLCOTT GIBBS. Know all men by these presents that I Alice Bache Gould of the City of Boston and County of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, in consideration of the acceptance of the within Trust by the National Academy of Sciences and also in consideration of divers other good and valuable considerations have given granted assigned transferred and set over and by these presents do give grant assign transfer and set over unto the said National Armed ~f Sciences and its successors forever a certain fined or film of taunter th~l,~anr1 {~^ ^~\ ~ ~ ~ ^_ ~ v ~ ~ ~ \ ~~~ and ~ , ..
From page 368...
... In witness whereof I the said Alice Bache Gould have hereto set my hand and seal and the said National Academy of Sciences has caused its corporate name and seal to be hereto affixed by Wolcott Gibbs its President "hereunto duly authorized this seventeenth (~7th) day of November in the year eighteen hundred and ninety seven (~897~.
From page 369...
... Third. I have copied many of the provisions of the Bache Fund, and it is my hope that the Boards of Direction of the two Funds may always act in friendly unison, as befits the long and intimate friendship of the men whose work they perpetuate.
From page 370...
... Joseph Henry during his natural life, and after his death, to his wife and daughters, and after the death of the last survivor " to deliver the said fund and the securities in which it shall then be invested to the National Academy of Sciences, to be thenceforward forever held in trust by the National Academy of Sciences under the name and title of ' the Joseph Henry fund,' the principal to be forever held intact and the income to be from time to time applied by the said National Academy of Sciences in its sole discretion to assist meritorious investigators especially in the direction of original research." THE JOHN L LECONTE FUND The will of Professor Le Conte contains the following clause: In case all my said children shall die before my said wife without lawful issue, then I direct the whole income to be paid to her during her natural life and upon her death or in case my said children shall all die after my said wife without lawful issue and intestate, the whole of my said Estate shall be distributed as follows: I give and bequeath unto ~ ~ ~ the National Academy of Sciences incorporated by Act of Congress of the United States of America the sum of Twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000~.
From page 371...
... In trust to use the interest and income thereof for the purpose of striking a gold medal which shall be called the " Lawrence Smith Medal," shall be of the value of Two hundred dollars in gold, and shall be struck in a die to be selected and presented to the said National Academy of Sciences, by me, the said Sarah Julia Smith. And the said medal shall be awarded and presented from time to time, by the said National Academy of Sciences, to any person in the United States of America or elsewhere who shall make an original investigation of meteoric bodies the results of which shall be made known to the public, such results being in the opinion of the said National Academy of Sciences of sufficient importance and benefit to science to merit such recognition, provided, however, that said medal shall not be presented or awarded more frequently than once in two years, and provided, also, that the investigation for which it is awarded or the completed publication thereof shall have been made since the time of the last preceding award and presentation of said medal.


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