TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE AND PARK AT SYDENHAM: WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF SCIENCE AND ART, AND OF THE TERRACES, FOUNTAINS, GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS, AND RESTORATION OF EXTINCT ANIMALS, THEREIN EXHIBITED. With Ground Plans of the Courts. TERED TO LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON STREET, AND 18, BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK. 1854. 10-534 "I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and stud the time in which he lives; and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence t have ordained."-Prince Albert's Speech at the Mansion House Banquet, 1849. "Upon a Roman holiday, hecatombs of wild beasts were slain, and sanguinary conflicts took place of man against man. We propose to gratify the 'people' wit other agencies, more in harmony with our civilization and our Christianity."-S Robert Peel, on the same occasion. J G45L R CONTENTS. The Directors report progress, and ask for more funds |