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i” Annual Meeting. 
WILL BOSTON RESPOND? 
It is proposed to begin with the Marine Aquarium at 
City Point, since it is nearer the centre of population, and 
will be on the whole the most attractive and novel of the 
three divisions. Its situation can be seen on the accom- 
panying plan. It is easily reached. In a very short time 
the ground will be ready for the erection of the needed 
buildings, but no step requiring outlay can be taken until 
one third of the final two hundred thousand dollars is 
obtained : and it is hoped that many friends, new and old, 
of the Boston Society of Natural History, of the cause of 
education, and of this particular mode of instructing and 
elevating the masses, will respond with their contributions. 
It is in no sense a scheme for the enrichment of those in- 
terested in it. Every means will be taken to have it grow 
by its own strength, and every gain will only enrich and 
enlarge it and its power of instruction and enjoyment. No 
cause not purely charitable appeals to so many classes and 
conditions of men. All employers of men and women 
must be anxious to provide so commendable a source of 
rational enjoyment aud recreation for themselves and for 
their employees. Every one interested in education must 
feel a responsive chord vibrating in his heart. Every 
public-spirited citizen will see in it an addition to the 
forces which increase the intelligence of the voter and 
thereby tend to make Boston a more desirable place of 
residence. 
It is hoped that this simple statement of facts will au- 
swer all the purposes of a more elaborate appeal ; but any 
further information will be gladly given by the Secretary of 
the Society, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, who ma}~ be addressed 
at the Society’s Museum on Berkeley Street, or by the 
