SEVENTH ANNUAL KEPORT 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK. 



To the Honorable the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of 

 the City of Brooklyn : 



The Commissioners of Prospect Park respectfully submit to 

 the Common Council of the city, this report of their proceed- 

 ings for the year 1866. Their last report presented, for the 

 consideration of the Common Council and of the city at large, 

 an enlarged plan for laying out and improving the grounds 

 selected for the park, with an explanation of the design, pre- 

 pared by Messrs. Olmsted, Vaux & Co., the landscape archi- 

 tects employed by the Board. The plan also set forth the nor- 

 mal condition of the park district, diversified by its broad 

 meadows, its well wooded hills and its picturesque sheets of 

 water; and exhibited its remarkable adaptability to the useful 

 and beneficent purposes for which it is intended. It was accom- 

 panied by an exhibit of the manner in which it was proposed to 

 develope its landscape effects, and to open its rides, drives and 

 rambles ; and suggested the locations suitable for its zoological 

 and other gardens; its rivulets, lakes and plantations. 



Without passing definitely upon the design thus presented, 

 and having in fact no other interest in the matter than such as 

 they hold in common with their fellow citizens, the Commis- 

 sioners caused it to be printed and extensively distributed 

 throughout the city, and waited a response from their constitu- 

 ents, whose taste and judgment they felt bound to respect. 

 The result fully realized the most sanguine anticipations of the 



