. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . ck, inthe French Renaissancestyle, with faqades ofgranite, brick, and brownstone. It has all the ap-pointments of a first-classclub-house, and as suchhas many patrons, thelist of members at thepresent time numberingnearly two thousand. The most prominent ofthe other social clubs arcthe Reform Club, whichoccupies a handsomewhite marble frontedbuilding on ChestnutStreet, above Fifteenth,and the PhiladelphiaClub, occupying thebuilding at Thirteenthand Walnut Streets. Next above the Union League building is an unpretentiou
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . ck, inthe French Renaissancestyle, with faqades ofgranite, brick, and brownstone. It has all the ap-pointments of a first-classclub-house, and as suchhas many patrons, thelist of members at thepresent time numberingnearly two thousand. The most prominent ofthe other social clubs arcthe Reform Club, whichoccupies a handsomewhite marble frontedbuilding on ChestnutStreet, above Fifteenth,and the PhiladelphiaClub, occupying thebuilding at Thirteenthand Walnut Streets. Next above the Union League building is an unpretentious and certainly far from handsomebuilding, which at present contains the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences. This society dates from the year 1812, when it was founded by a few gentlemen for mutualstudy into the laws of nature. A museum and library were among the first requisites, and stepswere early taken to establish both. The latter now contains about tAventy-three thousandvolumes, and the former upwards of two hundred and fifty thousand specimens, representing. NEW MASONIC TEMPLE. PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 5
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