ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS 



be open for the practical consummation of our 

 hopes. The correspondence between the Soci- 

 ety and the Commissioners will be found in the 

 several Reports of the latter body from 1887, 

 The commissioners have set apart the three 

 parcels of land referred to above for the pur- 

 poses mentioned, whenever the friends of the 

 Society shall have raised for the establishment 

 and endowment of the Gardens and Aquaria 

 the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. The 

 Council of the Society has further been author- 

 ized by the Society at large to proceed with 

 such establishment whenever the sum named 

 has been raised for that express purpose, with 

 certain provisions which guarantee the integrity 

 of the funds. Convinced that it would not be 

 wise to attempt to begin with the three pro- 

 posed divisions at the same time, the Council 



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further obtained consent to the beginning of 

 operations at City Point with the same provi- 

 sions as before, whenever one third of the re- 

 quired sum shall have been obtained. 



