REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL FAIR. 



The Board of Managers commenced their labor preparatory to the 

 20th exhibition in the early part of June. Their organization and 

 division into subcommittees was first completed, and from ihat time 

 to the present the gentlemen composing the board have devoted 

 their time with zeal and attention. When the immense amount 

 of labor necessary to be performed in a very short period of time is 

 taken into view, exemption from errors can hardly be expected^ we 

 indulge a hope, howevei", that the results will meet the approbation 

 of the Institute. 



The fair was opened to the public at Castle Garden on the 6th 

 day of October, and closed on the 23d. The exhibition consisted of 

 productions from 2,194 contributors in almost every department of 

 manufactures, the mechanic arts and horticultural production. The 

 whole consisting of more than 20,000 articles, were arranged by the 

 labor and under the directions of the members of the Board in the 

 best possible manner that the time would permit, which, from the 

 daily demonstration of visitors, we are encouraged to believe met the 

 public approbation. The horticultural department was entirely un- 

 der the management of Thomas Bridgman, Esq., who merits our 

 warmest thanks for his assiduity and taste. For a particular and in- 

 teresting account of this department we refer with pleasure to his 

 report hereto appended. 



It is gratifying to be able to say, that in various branches of im- 

 portant manufactures, and also in the production of the mechanic 

 arts, improvements and delicacy of finish, beyond the exhibition of 

 last year, were strikingly visible. 



It would be a curious and instructive spectacle could we arrange 

 the fair of 1828 by the fair of 1847, as illustrative of the great 



