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part in educational matters, as the reports of 

 the Superintendent of Schools and the Super- 

 visors will testify. It also places freely before 

 the public its treasures accumulated through 

 decades of hard work and arranoed with rare 

 skill. No other institution of the kind in the 

 country has manifested its activity in so many 

 ways or with greater success. 



If such an establishment as the proposed 

 Gardens and Acpiaria is to be anything more 

 than a mere pleasure ground, either a new or- 

 ganization, expressly established for the })iu'- 

 pose, must be formed, or the work must be 

 undertaken by one already ecpiipped. It is 

 believed that besides the saving of the cost and 

 labor of a new organization, the confidence of 

 the public, without which the undertaking is 

 impossible, will be extended with greater free- 

 dom to a Society that has already proved its 



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usefulness and its power to undertake a work 

 which is only an extension of its present opera- 

 tions. The Society, however, has no funds to 

 use in this direction, all that it now controls 

 being trust-funds devoted solely to such work 

 as it has already in hand. It has, therefore, 

 by a distinct vote determined that the new 

 undertaking must be supported through funds 

 obtained for that express purpose. 



It is only just and proper to state that the 

 Society and its officers have entered upon this 

 undertaking with no desire or object beyond a 

 feeling of duty to the ])ublic, and they have 

 freely contributed much valuable time and 

 labor towards the attainment of this great ad- 

 dition to the cause of public education and en- 

 joyment in Boston ; success can give satisfac- 

 tion, but remuneration is not possible. 



