Pamphlet on the foundation of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, at Harvard College, in Cambridge, with documents relative to its establishment, 1805.

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Pamphlet on the foundation of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, at Harvard College, in Cambridge, with documents relative to its establishment, 1805.

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The pamphlet in this collection is a printed edition of the rules and regulations of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, as approved on March 27, 1805 by a group of subscribers to a fund for the establishment of the Professorship. The pamphlet has been edited by Eliphalet Pearson to reproduce an earlier version of the rules submitted to the Harvard Corporation on March 1, 1805 by the subscribers. A note in the pamphlet indicates that the March 1, 1805 rules were drafted by the subscribers on February 26, 1805. The rules describe the procedures for the election of the professor; define the duties of the professor, including the professor's responsibility to establish and administer a botanic garden, to give lectures in botany and entomology, and to collect mineralogical specimens for the use of the College; outline the fiduciary relationship between the Corporation and the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History involving the management of the Professorship's real estate and personal property; and acknowledge the Board of Visitors right to make all rules and regulations regarding the Professorship in order to promote the interests of the College and the arts and agriculture of Massachusetts. This pamphlet also includes the bylaws of the Board of Visitors specifying the number of members of the board, how they are chosen, and when they are to meet and a "subscription paper" outlining the purposes and objectives of the Professorship of Natural History.

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