REPORT CONCERNING THE STATUES. 81 



EEPOKT AND EESOLUTIONS CONCEENING THE STATUES. 



At a regular rrieeting; of the Society, held July 7th, 1866, the following 

 Report from Turner Sargent was read by the President: — 



On the -ith of February, 1865, II. H. Hunnewell, C. O. Whitmore, 

 B. P. Chenc}^ and Turner Sargent were constituted a Committee for 

 receiving donations, and placing upon the north and south corner but- 

 tresses of the first story of the Tremont Street facade of the Society's 

 new building, and also upon the centre crowning tablet of said facade, 

 three statues, and were authorized to cause the same to be erected. 



The spontaneous and noble generosity of his three associates, who 

 have respectively presented to the Society, "Flora," "Pomona" and 

 " Ceres," leaves the Chairman but the simple duty of reporting, that 

 there now stands upon the Society's new building, three colossal statues, 

 one representing the Goddess of Flowers, one the Goddess of Fruits, 

 and one the Goddess of Grain. 



They are symbolical and typical, and being such it is thought that 

 they are peculiarly appropriate, not only to the architecture of the 

 building itself, but to the principles by which the Society is actuated, 

 and by which it lives and flourL'«hes. In one sense the Society dis- 

 penses the beautiful, as is manifested in the flowers that decorate its 

 halls, in the fruits that gladden the eye, and in the grain that cheers the 

 heart, it is therefore that these statues, standing as they do, boldly and 

 bravely out in the sunshine and in the stone, show to the passer-by 

 the object and the aim of the Society, and make manifest its great 

 intention. 



As it is inappropriate to descant upon the heroic beauty of the 

 Cyclopic Ceres, the playful gracefulness of the "Flora," or the 

 matronly dignity of the " Pomona," the simple fact only will be alluded 

 to that a few months since, the mighty boulder, that had been sleeping 

 amidst the granite hills of New Hampshire since the creation of the 

 world, was touched by the Ithuriel spear of art, and developed into 

 these embodiments of the good, the useful and the beautiful. 



For this we are indebted to the gifted young artist (Martin Milmoro) 

 whose name is cut at the feet of the statues, indicative of his veneration 

 for art, and for his adoration of its mighty power. 

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