AMElilCAX HUM AXE EDUCATION SOCIETY, 



Its directors hold office for life; when one, dies the others 

 elect another to fill his place. Its board of fourteen 

 directors is made up of eight gentlemen and six ladies, 

 three of whom are Catholics, and eleven Protestants, and 

 all of w hom have been distinguished for their interest in 

 questions of humanity. 



Among them are Hon. Henry 0. Houghton^ senior partner 

 of the great publishing house of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. ; 

 Hon. Edward H. Bennett, Dean of " llie Boston University 

 Law School;" Hon. Daniel Needham, President of "The 

 New England Agricultural Society;" Hon. George White., 

 Judge of Probate ; Hon. Henry B. Hill., and Patrick Donahoe, 

 Esq., who is well known to Eoman Catholics throughout 

 our country. 



Among its vice-presidents and active life members are the 

 Governor of Massachusetts ; the Most Bev. John J. Williams, 

 of Boston ; the Bight Bev. William Lawrence, the Episcopal 

 Bishop of Massachusetts ; Bev. Francis E. Clark, President of 

 ^'' The Societies of Christian Endeavor ; ^'' Mrs. F. W. Vander- 

 bilt, of New York City ; Miss Sarah J. Eddy, of Providence, 

 R. I. ; and other prominent gentlemen and ladies residing 

 in various parts of our country. 



Among the w^ork already accomplished by it in the last 

 four years has be^ the establishing, through its mission- 

 aries and otherwise, of numerous " Humane Societies " in 

 different parts of our country, and many thousands of 

 branches of its '-'- Parent Band of Mercy ,^'' which now numbers 

 over seventeen thousand branches, established in every State 

 and Territory, and including probably more than a million 

 members. 



It has printed and circulated and caused to be circulated 

 about a million and a half copies of '•'•Black Beauty,'''' being 

 probably the largest number ever circulated of any book 

 in the world in the same length of time from publication. 



It has sent its monthly paper, ^'-Our Dumb Animals,"" 

 regularly to the editors of every newspaper and magazine in 



