Fickes, a resident of Washington, died in December 1943, leaving a will dated November 19, 1940. The will provided for the creation of a trust upon his death. The will also provided that upon the death of Fickes’s last surviving child, one-half of the trust property was to be distributed to Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute and the other half of the trust property distributed “in equal portions” between Fickes’s “grandchildren then living.” At the time of death of Fickes’s last surviving child, there were four biological grandchildren living. In addition, there were four adopted grandchildren living. Two of them, grandsons, had been adopted by Fickes’s son while Fickes was still living. The other two, granddaughters, were adopted by Fickes’s son in 1962 and 1965, long after Fickes’s death. Were the granddaughters entitled to share in the trust distribution?