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Acceptance of the Monument by the Rev. Morgan Dix, 
D. D., Rector of Trinity Church. 
ProrEssor EaiEeston: In the name of the Venerable Corpora- 
tion of Trinity Church I accept at your hands, as Chairman of 
the Audubon Monument Committee and representing as such 
Chairman the Academy of Sciences, the gift of this stately and 
noble monument erected to the memory of one who has been 
described, by a high authority, as the greatest of American 
ornithologists ; and in doing so I promise you, in the name of 
the present members of the Corporation and of their successors, 
that we will do all in our power to preserve it intact,and keep it 
uuinjured on its present site. Among the most precious and 
honorable of the trusts of Trinity Corporation is that of guard- 
ing the remains of the dead and the monuments erected to their 
memory by grateful and admiring friends. No one knows this 
better than yourself, an active member of the Cemetery Com- 
mittee. The ancient churchyard of Trinity, which has been in 
our keeping since the year 1702, contains many notable memor- 
ials. There may be seen the monument upon the grave of the 
illustrious Alexander Hamilton; the monument under which 
rest the bones of the not less illustrious James Lawrence, who 
died fighting his ship against a foe superior in force; the tomb 
of Albert Gallatin, statesman and diplomatist ; the headstone of 
William Bradford, who introduced the Art of Printing into the 
Middle Colonies of British America; and that lofty and appro- 
priate structure erected by the Vestry of Trinity Church to 
commemorate the martyrs who died in the British prison ships 
during the Revolutionary War; with other stones of which I 
have not time to speak particularly. In the almost equally 
ancient churchyard of St. Paul’s Chapel may be seen the shafts 
sacred to the memory of Robert Emmett and Dr. McNeven; the 
monument of the gallant Montgomery who fell at Qnebec; the 
monument of the Sieur de Roche Fontaine, a distinguised 
ofticer of the French force under Count Rochambeau, which 
aided us in the establishment of our independence ; and that of 
the eminent actor Geo. Frederick Cook, erected by the elder 
Kean, and recently restored by our distinguished townsman, 
Edwin Booth. This cemetery in which we are now assembled 
contains already many treasures of this class, to which others 
are added year by year; and I wish I could say that they shall 
always remain in our care unmolested and undisturbed ; but un- 
fortunately we are reminded by recent occurrences that men are 
powerless against the aggressive force of injurious statutes and 
unfriendly influences. The old Clarkson Street Burial Ground 
