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Excerpt from Opening of Lyman Williston Hall: Address by Prof. W. S. Tyler, and Exercises of Dedication At the annual meeting of the Trustees of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in July, 1873, after listening to statements made by A. L. Williston, Esq., accompanied with an offer from him to contribute seven thousand five hundred dollars, (subse quently increased to ten thousand, ) towards the erection of a building for Science and Art, a Building Committee, con sisting of Mr. Williston, Prof. J. H. Seelye and Dr. N. Gr. Clark, was appointed With instructions to form a plan, and devise ways and means, and if the way appeared clear, proceed to erect such a building. At the same time, in aid of the enterprise, liberty was given to draw upon any unappropriated funds of the Seminary for a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars. At the next annual meeting, in July, 1874, Mr. Williston, Chairman, and in behalf of the Building Committee, presented a report recommending, as a result of his labors and investigations during the year, and the success that had attended the effort to raise the necessary funds, That the Trustees proceed at an early day to erect the building. At the same meeting plans pre pared by Messrs. Peabody Stearns of Boston, were submitted, providing rooms for an Ichnological Cabinet, Natural History Cabinet, Art Gallery, a large Lecture room, and sundry recitation and study rooms, all much needed by the Seminary. 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.