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become matter of history : others, perhaps greater than these, 

 belong to posterity, and need the ken of proptiecy to describe. 

 We may be quite sure, however, that this Hall will be a centre of 

 deep interest to coming generations. Long after we shall have 

 passed away, will the men of New-York, as they survey these 

 monuments, feel stimulated to engage in other noble enterprises 

 by this work of their progenitoi-s ; and from many a distant part 

 of the civilized world will men come here to solve their scientific 

 questions, and to bring far off regions into comparison with this. 

 New-York, then, by her liberal patronage of scienx^e, has not only 

 acquired an honorable name among the living in all civilized 

 lands, but has secured the voice of history to transmit her fame 

 to far off generations. 



