REPOET. 



Of the Board of Managers cf the Twenty-ninth Annual Fair of the 

 American Institute. 



The Board of Managers of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Fair of 

 the American Institute, respectfully 



REPORT : 

 That on the 29th day of May last, they were duly organized by 

 the election of Charles A. Whitney, as chairman, and F. W. 

 Geisseuhainer, Jr., vice-chairman, and by appointing John W. 

 Chambers, as secretary. 



The members of the Board, on entering upon their duties, felt 

 the full measure of the responsibility resting upon them. To 

 call forth, to arrange and combine the various oiferings of labor, 

 of genius, of production, and of art, with all their various and 

 multiform accompaniments, with inventions improved or newly 

 born from the brain of American workmen, required, and it is 

 hoped, received due attention from the Board. 



Our Institution, so long the nursery of the noble monuments 

 of American genius and labor, requires its Annual Fair, to give 

 life to its members, as well as a new and lasting impulse to in- 

 ventors and exhibiters; and its continued success must, in no 

 small degree, depend on its character for just appreciation, and 

 upon an intelligent discrimination in the bestowal of its rewards 

 and premiums. Let its decisions be just and liberal, and the seal 

 of the Institute wall be acknowiedged before every tribunal of 

 labor throughout the civilized world. 



By a prudent forecast on the part of the trustees, the Crystal 

 Palace was secured in the month of June. This enabled the board 



