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England is becoming awakened to the importance of the same 

 object, and a portion of the immense income of her universities is 

 now devoted to the support of original investigators. 



With the hope that you will excuse the plainness of some of my 

 remarks, and attribute them to my ardor for the advancement of 

 knowledge, and a desire to stimulate the inhabitants of this city to 

 efforts in the line in which I am most interested, rather than to a ten- 

 dency to indulge in depreciation or cynical criticism, I must close my 

 address and throw myself upon your indulgence for having involunta- 

 rily, as it were, exceeded the limit of my time. 



At the conclusion of Professor Henry's address, the Superintend- 

 ent of the Museum read the following list of articles in the box to be 

 placed in the corner stone : 



1. Reports and Circulars of the Museum. 



2. Reports of the Department of Public Parks for 1870, 1871 and 



1872. 



3. Manual of the State Legislature. 



4. Congressional Directory. 



5. Daily Papers— the "New York Tribune," "Times," "World," 



"Herald," "Sun," '• Evening Post," "Mail," "Express," 

 " Commercial Advertise]'," "Journal of Commerce," " Staats- 

 Zeitung," and the "Courier de Etats-Unis," " Appleton's 

 Journal," " Harper's Weekly Illustrated Paper," and " Frank 

 Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Paper." 



6. One Dollar and fractional parts in currency. 

 One Dollar and fractional parts in coin. 



The Treasurer deposited the Box in the Corner Stone, which 

 was then laid by 



His Excellency 



GEN'L U. S. GRANT, 



President of the United States. 



The exercises closed with a Benediction pronounced by the Rev. 

 Henry C. Potter, D. D. 



