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WE learn from the Revue Générale des Sciences that M. d' Abbadie, late President of the Paris Academy of Sciences, has asked the Academy to accept a considerable gift in the name of his wife and himself. The donation consists of the Abbadia estate (Basses-Pyrénées), having an annual revenue o twenty thousand francs, and one hundred shares in the Bank of France, representing a capital of four hundred thousand francs and an annual income of fifteen thousand. By the deed of gift, these properties will not fall to the Academy until after the decease of the donors. Two of the principal clauses and charges of the legacy are as follows:—(1) The Academy may establish on the Abbadia estate any researches or laboratories, except those devoted to vivisection. (2) An observatory must be established at Abbadia, in which a catalogue of five hundred thousand stars can be made, the work to be completed in 1950. In order to reduce the expenses which this stipulation carries with it, the work may be confided to some religious order. The Academy has nominated a commission to examine the conditions of this munificent donation, and has expressed its deep gratitude to M. and Mme. d'Abbadie. It is not too much to say that this feeling is shared by all men of science.
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Notes. Nature 48, 421–425 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048421a0
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