1893. | NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 39 
Proceedings of the Special Meeting of the Academy held 
at the American Museum of Natural History in 
the Evening of April 26, 1893.* 
President H. CARRINGTON BOLTON in the chair. 
Mr. Morris K. Jesup, President of the Board of Trustees of 
the Museum, spoke as follows: S 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is a great pleasure to me, as 
President of the American Museum of Natural History, to ask 
you to join with us in bidding welcome this evening to our hon- 
ored guests, the New York Academy of Sciences, the oldest 
organization of its kind in this city, and which has done so 
much for the cause of science throughout the world. They have 
come here at our invitation to do honor to the memory of the 
great naturalist, Audubon, whose statue was unveiled this after- 
noon at Trinity Cemetery. Any one who was fortunate enough 
like myself. to be present on the occasion referred to, and to 
hear the eloquent words of Dr. Egleston and Dr. Dix, must 
conclude that the age of civic pride in this city is not 
dead, but lives. It has been said that the people of this city 
were given over to money making and money worshipping, that 
science and art had no place here. I am sure we can give the 
denial to such statements when we look about us and see the 
monuments, statues, museums and hospital buildings that exist, 
and see also to what other uses the money made in this city is 
consecrated to in our public buildings, such as the Cooper Insti- 
tute, Lenox Library, United Charities Building and others. 
No, New Yorkers do consecrate their time and give their money 
as no other city in this country. Iam glad to see this Museum 
able to extend its hospitality to such honored institutions as 
the one, Dr. Bolton, which you represent, and I now take pleas- 
ure in asking vou to take the chair, and to preside over this 
meeting, and to consider yourself, sir, and your friends, as en- 
tirely at home. 
President Botton read the following extracts from unpub- 
lished letters of Audubon: 
WASHINGTON City, Nov. 8, 1836. 
1. We left Baltimore yesterday afternoon at ¢ past 5—having paid 
$13.31 for our bill at Page’s Hotel. We came here by the railway in 3 
hours and paid for this $5. We are at Fuller’s this evening, and at this 
moment in the same parlor where John and I spent some days when on 
our way last to England. 
* See minutes of the Academy, and TRANSACTIONS, 12: 217, 218. 
