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It is not irrelevant here to state, that mtich care and much thought 

 have been bestowed during the progress and completion of these 

 statues, on their design, and their adaptability, and if the gratification 

 of the eye touches some latent emotion of the heart of any gazer, 

 however careless or however humble, and leads the thoughts upwards 

 to the Great Creator, who guards the lily and protects the grain, then 

 these silent architectural interpretations will not have been presented or 

 erected in vain. 



Turner Sargent. 



At a subsc'(pient meeting the President offered the following resolu- 

 tions, which were unanimously^ accepted and ordered to be placed on the 

 Records and printed with the Transactions of the Society: — 



liesolcal^ That the thanks of the Society be respectfully tendered to 

 B. P. Cheney, H. Hollis Hunnewell, and C. O. Whitmore, Esqs., 

 for the munificent gifts of the three statues which adorn the Society's 

 Hall, and that the President be requested to transmit a copy of this 

 Resolution to each of the gentlemen named. 



liesolved. That the Report submitted to the Society, July 7th, 1866, 

 by Turner Sargent, Esq., be entered in full upon the records, and 

 that the thanks of the Society be tendered to Mr. Sargent for the aid, 

 and interest taken by him, in the completion of the statues. 



