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[Annual Meeting. 
rejoiced to say, not only has this been removed by the self- 
sacrificing efforts of the same body, but the Association has 
generously asked us our further immediate needs, and has re- 
sponded to our requests by placing in our hands a sum sufficient 
to enable us now to follow up our Appeal by better and more 
wisely directed personal effort which can hardly fail of success. 
This the Association has done through a committee by raising in 
small amounts — not to the prejudice of the larger sums we need 
for the actual foundation of our proposed establishment — a sum 
sufficient for the prosecution of our work. Besides the two 
hundred dollars given last year we have within a month re- 
ceived from them the further sum of nearly two thousand dollars 
contributed by more than ninety individuals, with few exceptions 
ladies. This is most encouraging, for not only does it relieve 
us of an anxiety which has hampered every action, but it shows 
how wide spread and how sincere is the interest taken in our plans 
by the educated and patriotic women of Boston. Armed with 
this encouragement we have already obtained from nearly every 
one of the original subscribers an extension of the time to which 
their subscriptions were limited and are ready now to redouble 
our endeavor to secure for Boston an establishment which we 
contend will outvie every other in solid interest for the whole 
people. 
We have further been fortified in our conclusion to begin with 
the Marine Aquarium at City Point the series of exhibits we 
hope finally to establish, by finding how much wider an interest 
is felt in this proposed department than in either of the others ; 
and while we do not for an instant propose to slacken our endeavors 
until the whole of the amount first stated as necessary for the 
foundation of all three of the proposed divisions is obtained, we 
think it better for the moment to concentrate our entire attention 
upon the Marine Aquarium ; and we have the pleasure of exhibit- 
ing to-night for the first time the architects’ plans for the pro- 
posed building which, it will be seen, permit of the erection of one 
portion at a time (the first portion containing the entire fa£ade 
and so to all effects a complete building), and which yet provides 
in the end for all the space which is likely to be required or 
could well be gained upon the site to be occupied. One of the 
architects who is present has kindly consented to explain some of 
its details. 
