Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees and a List of Members

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees and a List of Members: For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1883 In making this, their Eighth Annual Report, the Trustees are gratified to observe that a review of the history of the Institution during the past year shows evidence of substantial progress in sev eral important directions, particularly in respect of a growing appreciation by the community of the value and importance of the Museum and the School as educational factors. After the Centennial the ladies who, as the Women's Centennial Executive Committee, had labored so efficiently for the success of the Exhibition, continued their organization under the name of the Committee of Charities. On our invitation these ladies associated themselves with this Board, in March last, as the Associate Com mittee of Women, for the purpose of assisting in furthering the work of this Institution. One of the large pavilions in the Museum has been set apart for their use, in which to maintain a national memorial of the work done by the women of the country during the Centennial. As they were particularly interested in the work of the School, three of their number were appointed a committee auxiliary to the Committee on Instruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.