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red in this cemetery when he died in the year 1851, and have 
since been in your care and keeping. 
It is owing to the thoughtful generosity of Trinity Church 
that the Audubon Monument Committee has been able to set 
up a monument on this spot, for when, in 1888, they represented 
to Trinity Church that the monument ought to be erected in a 
more conspicuous place than that where his remains were then 
buried, you not only agreed to it and exchanged the old plot in 
the southwest part of the cemetery for a new and larger one in 
this beautiful location, overlooking his old homestead, and con- 
structed a new vault, but when you were informed that the 
weight of the monument might endanger the vault, you gave ad- 
ditional ground on which to erect it. It is, therefore, largely 
owing to your generosity that the Academy of Sciences has 
been able to erect so stately a monument. 
The dimensions of the monument are : 
Granite base, 1 ft. 6 in. high, 8 ft. by 6 ft. 4 in. square. 
Bluestone die, 5 ft. 6 in. high, 5 ft. by 4 ft. at the base, 3 ft. 
54 in. by 2: ft. 10 in. at top. 
Cross, 18 ft. 10 in. high, 2 ft. 44 in. by 1 ft. 75 in. at the 
bottom. 
Total height 25 ft. 10 in. 
The arm of the cross is 5 ft. 3 in. 
The weight is: 
Granite base......... By. ts aca Roe Resta 7 tons. 
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otal sweircht-...° <5 en. Sicbetster ofele' . 21 tons. 
The contributions for it have been received from almost 
every part of the United States. Boston has been very liberal ; 
Philadelphia and Baltimore have made some subscriptions ; but 
by far the largest part has been contributed by the citizens of 
of this city, which he honored by having lived in it. 
This cross is a monument to science, to manhood, to perse- 
vering and patient endeavor under discouraging circum- 
stances, to unselfish generosity, and, highest and best of all, to 
that unbounded faith in his Heavenly Father’s wisdom and 
guidance which characterized, in adversity as well as prosperity, 
every act of Audubon’s life. This beautiful cross, with its or- 
namentation of the birds and animals which he loved so well, 
and its inscriptions, cannot fail to be both a reminder and an 
incentive to young men to strive to attain the eminence to 
“which he arrived. 
