OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE DUDLEY
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY,


WITH A

CONDENSED REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS,

AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE

DEDICATION OF NEW YORK STATE GEOLOGICAL HALL.


NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY ROSS & TOUSEY,
103 NASSAU STREET.
1856.




A NOTE EXPLANATORY.

The undersigned ventures to put forth this report of Mr.
EVERETT'S Oration, in connection with a condensed account of the
Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory, and the Dedication of
the New State Geological Hall, at Albany,--in the hope that the
demand which has exhausted the newspaper editions, may exhaust
this as speedily as possible; not that he is particularly
tenacious of a reward for his own slight labors, but because he