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ble that any such donations should be embezzled, misappropriated, 

 or wasted. 



We offer, then, our own $150,000 toward the erection of such 

 an edifice as the interests of American Industry imperatively 

 require. We most respectfully solicit of you such contributions 

 as your means will warrant and the object may seem to you to 

 deserve. No dollar will be diverted or lost ; all will be devoted 

 to the erection of an edifice which shall honor our City and State, 

 while it insures a more rapid progress in Science and the Useful 

 Arts throughout our country and the world. 



Any suggestion or word of encouragement from you will be 

 gratefully received and considered by Yours, 



HORACE GREELEY, President. 



Ti-ustees. 

 Dudley S. Gregory, Jireh Bull, 



WiLLMM HiBBARD, SaMUEL D; TiLLMAW, 



Edward Walk:er, Sylvester R. Comstock. 



[The above appeal was unanimously adopted at a regular meet- 

 ing of the Institute, held on the 7th day of June, 1866.] 



