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much regretted, as many were anxious to see and be addressed by these 

 distuiguished persons. Tlie former, it was stated, was prevented from 

 tiillilling his promise by indisposition, and the latter by a press of busi- 

 ness. 



At 9.!, o'clock, A. M., the procession, consisting of the Speakers, the 

 Faculty and visitors, the members of the Linncean Association, &c., 

 moved from the College edifice to Christ's Church, in which, after prayer 

 was offered by Rev. Dr. Krauth, two addresses, delivered by Prof. S. S. 

 HaldemaiV and Rev. F. W. Conrad, together with the excellent music 

 furnished by the Brass Band from Newville, Curab. Co. Pa., entertained, 

 for several hours, an unusually large audience. The address by Prof. 

 Ilaldeman was no effort to play the orator ; not one of those displays of 

 empty words and gorgeous imagery so often offered as an intellectual 

 feast on such occasions, but it was simple, natural, appropriate to 

 the occasion, and abounding, by way of illustration, in much interesting 

 and most valuable information. None but those who were incapable of 

 appreciating its merits, and who are in the habit of looking with stupid 

 indifference upon the works of the great Creator in the natural world, 

 could listen to it without being interested and delighted. We should 

 regret our want of room to give an abstract of it, in the present number 

 of tlie Journal, if we were not able to announce to the public that it 

 will be speedily published in pamphlet form. 



The Address by Rev. F. W. Conrad was an exhibition of the great 

 value to our country and the world of virtue and intelligence; the im- 

 portant agency which educational institutions, such as Pennsylvania 

 College of which the Linnasan Association constitutes a part, were cal- 

 culated to exert in the formation of educated mind by the great facilities 

 which they furnish; and a forcible appeal, in his usual felicitous manner, 

 to the liberality of the publtc for aid in the erection of the Hall. The 

 appeal resulted in a collection of contributions to the amount of several 

 hundred dollars. There are, however, yet needed for the completion of 

 the Hall on the part of the Association from ^1,000 to ^1,200. 



From the church, the procession moved to the site of the Ilall, where, 

 in the presence of a large concourse of people, the Corner-stone was 

 laid, and the articles deposited by the Hon. James Cooper, who closed 

 the whole exercises by an appropriate and eloquent address. 



The articles deposited in the Corner-stone were as follows : 



1. The History and Constitution of the Linneean Association. 



2. A list of the active and honorary members of the Association. 



3. An Annual Catalogue of the officers and students of Penn. College. 



4. A Catalogue of the Phrenakosmiau Society. 



