REPORT 



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 proceedings for 

 the year 1S66. Their last report presented for the consideration of 

 the Common Council, and of the City at large, a general plan for 

 laying out and improving the grounds selected for the Park, with 

 an explanation of the design, at considerable length, prepared by 

 Messrs. Olmsted, Yaux & Co., the landscape architects, employed 

 by the Board. The plan also set forth the normal condition of the 

 Park district, diversified by its broad meadows, its well wooded 

 hills and its picturesque sheets of water ; and exhibited its remark- 

 able adaptability to the useful and beneficent purposes for which it 

 is intended. It was accompanied by a photographic 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 loca- 

 tions 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 Commissioners 

 caused it to be printed and extensively distributed throughout the 

 city, and waited a response from their constituents, whose taste and 

 judgment they felt bound to respect. The result fully reahzed the 



