PROCEEDINGS 
° 'of ' 
BOSTON SOCIETY pE NATURAL HISTORY. 
TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY’S RECORDS. 
Annual Meeting, May 7, 1890. 
Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. 
The following reports were presented : 
Report on the Museum. By Alpheus Hyatt, Curator. 
The subject which has been most prominently before the Society 
during the past year, and which has absorbed the time of the offi- 
cers outside of the routine duties of their positions, is the proposed 
establishment of Natural History Gardens. The greater part of 
the preparation for this work has necessarily fallen upon the shoul- 
ders of the Sub-committee on Grounds, which was required to pre- 
pare a scheme that would not only be thoroughly scientific and 
educational, but contain all the elements necessary to attract and 
hold the attention and interest of the public, and also be of such a 
character that it would harmonize with the views and plans of the 
Park Commissioners, and thus secure their hearty cooperation. All 
of these requirements and other difficulties and problems, which 
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