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here by delegates or have transmitted documents expressing their 

 appreciation of his life and labors. The public natural science 

 institutions of New York have come to take leading parts in the 

 subjects they teach and illustrate. Public and private philan- 

 thropy have developed them with a rapidity almost phenomenal, 

 for they are all yet in their infancy, and on a scale commensurate 

 with the dignity of the metropolis of America. The cordial co- 

 operation of a municipality with public-spirited citizens to build 

 and maintain such institutions for the welfare of the people and 

 of science, finds here, in New York, its maximum evolution, which 



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iched it 







shall be said of theii 

 position and importance when after fifty years the New York 

 Historical Society opens the tablet which we now place upon this 

 bridge ? And, what discoveries will Science have made for the 

 benefit of the human race during these next fifty years ? 



The selection of this bridge recently constructed by the Park 



priate. It is situated just outside the New York Zoological Park, 

 with the New York Botanical Garden a short distance to the north, 



