On the presentation of the gift itself, Morpeth decides to bring it back to his home at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, and there it remains for 180 years.
Hudspeth and Fettiplace both spoke April 9th at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. at an event honoring 10 U.S. Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates.
Heinrich Steinmeyer, who died in 2014 at the age of 90, made the bequest to the village in Perthshire in return for the kindness he was shown by people in Scotland.