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N o v ' r Engaged for advice on the development of Mount 

 Royal Park, Montreal, and furnished written 

 instructions during progress of construction (1874- 

 1876). 



D e c ' r Deposited check from Johns Hopkins University 

 for plan. 



1875: Engaged in giving advice for the laying out of a 

 "summer village" at Chatauqua Point. 



Plan for the new stairways and terraces west of 

 the U. S. Capitol favorably reported by the Com- 

 mittees of Public Buildings and Grounds and 

 adopted by Congress. 



Reports for Buffalo and New York City parks 

 (Riverside Park with Vaux) printed. Revised 

 article on Parks in Appleton's Cyclopedia pub- 

 lished. 



May Gives advice as to lay-out of grounds and placing 

 of buildings, Trinity College, Hartford, to replace 

 plans previously given, but mislaid. 



May 6 Requested by the Q. M. General of the War Dept. 

 to furnish plans for the ''improvement of its 

 grounds in a tasteful manner" of the Schuylkill 

 Arsenal, Philadelphia. 



June Plans for McLean Asylum lay-out requested, on 

 site in Waverly recommended. 



After graduation from Sheffield Scientific School 

 at Yale, John Charles Olmsted became an appren- 

 tice with Frederick Law Olmsted. 



