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been denied to a great and useful object, they hope \yill 

 not be withheld from this. They trust that all who have 

 observed the progress of the Society, will think it deserving 

 of a liberal support ; and they feel assured that those who 

 have fostered it in its infancy, will not desert it at this 

 crisis of its more mature existence. 



