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this great city with these monuments of learning to the people of 
all classes ; surely it is significant, as we sit here with the son-in- 
law of Peter Cooper, who opened that other school at the other 
end of this city, that on this platform are men whose names will 
go down to posterity for the services they have rendered to this 
Museum of Natural History, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
to these great classes of learning which we are here in the name 
of New York to thank them for ; and in your behalf, I am sure, 
ladies and gentlemen, to say that we take them into our own lov- 
ing care, and will guard them reverently and vigilantly for all the 
future. 
President Jesup invited Archbishop Corrigan to address the 
audience in conclusion of the ceremonies, but the latter asked to 
be excused, by reason of the lateness of the hour. 
