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[Annual Meeting. 
for a Marine Aquarial Garden and for the exhibition of large ma- 
rine animals like the whales, and some sharks and also seals in 
open air tanks which can probably be constructed near the Aqua- 
rial building. Professor Putnam examined the region northeast 
of Jamaica Pond and reported that, after the Park Commissioners 
should have carried out their proposed plans for the improvement 
of this part of the parks, it would become a very suitable place for 
the location of a Fresli-Water Aquarial Garden and for the estab- 
lishment of a fish- hatching station, and also for an exhibit of other 
animals which, like the Batrachians, beavers and muskrats, and 
the like are either wholly or partly aquatic. It is proposed to 
place our exhibits of terrestrial and aerial animals at Franklin Park 
the third of the locations, and this will therefore become, if our de- 
signs are carried out, the zoological garden proper. The sub-com- 
mittee on organization has had the benefit of a topographical map 
of the grounds at Franklin Park and this has formed the basis of a 
Natural History survey systematically made by Mr. Van Vleck for 
the location of pens, paddocks and other matters connected with 
the laying out of a zoological garden. According to this report the 
grounds will afford ample room and surpassingly fine accommoda- 
tions for exhibits of certain kinds of mammals and other animals 
which could be appropriately kept there. The committee has also 
invited and received the benefit of a visit from an expert of experi- 
ence, Mr. Arthur Erwin Brown, whose opinion was considered to 
be of great value on account of his success in conducting the oper- 
ations of the Zoological Gardens at Philadelphia which are under 
his charge. Mr. Brown was very much pleased with the general as- 
pect and facilities for the exposition of certain classes of animals 
at Franklin Park and gave the committee the use of his written 
opinions which will be published in the next reports or letters of 
the council. In fact it seems to be the general opinion that the way 
is clear for the establishment of a series of natural history exhibits 
which in certain features have never been equalled in any city in 
the world. 
The largeness of the plan is no obstacle to practicability, and it 
is believed hy those most deeply interested and at the same time 
having more or less knowledge of such matters that a series of es- 
tablishments will be more easily supported than any single estab- 
lishment, exception being made in favor of the Marine Aquaria. 
The founding of the Marine Aquaria would probably be followed by 
