We may be quite sure that this Hall will be a center 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 progenitors, 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, has not only
acquired an honorable name among those living in all civilized
lands, but has secured the voice of History to transmit her fame
to far-off generations.