. The official guide book to . eties andspecies. The society was incorporated in 1831. It gave exhibitionsfor many years in the old museum building and other places, andonce or twice upon one of the public squares. The present buildingwas commenced in 1866 and opened for use 29th of May, 1867. Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture occupies aportion of the building on the south-west corner of Ninthand Walnut streets. This is the oldest agricultural societyin the United States, and was instituted 1857. It holdsmonthly meetings, has a cabinet and library, has in formeryear
. The official guide book to . eties andspecies. The society was incorporated in 1831. It gave exhibitionsfor many years in the old museum building and other places, andonce or twice upon one of the public squares. The present buildingwas commenced in 1866 and opened for use 29th of May, 1867. Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture occupies aportion of the building on the south-west corner of Ninthand Walnut streets. This is the oldest agricultural societyin the United States, and was instituted 1857. It holdsmonthly meetings, has a cabinet and library, has in formeryears awarded many premiums for improvements in agricul-ture, and has published several volumes of memoirs of itstransactions. CHAPTER , SCULPTURE, MUSIC. THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS. rilHE new academy building is situated at the south-west-*- corner of Broad and Cherry streets, entirely covering thelot of two hundred and sixty feet in length on Cherry street,and one hundred feet front on Broad street. It is thoroughly. THE ACADEMY OF FINE AKTS. fireproof, and the dwellings of the janitor, curator and porterare so disposed as to properly guard it. The structure, of Byzantine or Venetian style of architecture,is of mingled brick and stone. Over the portal on Broad streetstands a mutilated colossal statue in marble of the goddess Cereslike a presiding genius of antique art; for is not all art since 191 192 acadp:my of the fine arts. Michael Angelo founded on the grand principles evolved byhim out of the ancient buried masterpieces just then discov-ered and reinstalled to gladden the sight and mould the tasteof after generations ? This noble fragment was dug up atMegara, in Greece, and was brought thence by CommodorePatterson and presented by him to the academy. The columnbeneath it, dividing the entrance into two, is of polishedAberdeen granite, as are also those that decorate the windowsand door, and the smaller ones of the central balcony andunder the cor
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