community should patronize science, and foster such institutions
as this. We scientific men regard this as an occasion of the
highest interest, and thus do not hesitate to give the sanction
of the highest learned body of the country as an indorsement of
the liberality of this State. The geological survey of New York
has given to the world a new nomenclature. No geologist can,
hereafter, describe the several strata of the earth without
referring to it. Its results, as recorded in your published
volumes, are treasured in the most valuable libraries of the
world. They have made this city famous; and now, when the
scientific geologist lands on your shore, his first question is,
"Which is the way to Albany? I want to see your fossils." But
Paleontology is only one branch of the subject, and many others
your survey has equally fostered.

He next proceeded to show that organized beings were organized
with reference to a plan, which the relations between different
animals, and between different plants, and between animals and
plants, everywhere exhibit;--drew sections of the body of a
fish, and of the bird, and of man, and pointed out that in each
there was the same central back-bone, the cavity above and
the ribbed cavity below the flesh on each side, and the skin
over all--showing that the maker of each possessed the same
thought--followed the same plan of structure. And upon that plan
He had made all the kinds of quadrupeds, 2,000 in number, all the
kinds of birds, 7,000 in number, all of the reptiles, 2,000 to
3,000 in number, all the fish, 10,000 to 12,000 in number. All
their forms may be derived as different expressions of the same
formula. There are only four of these great types; or, said he,
may I not call them the four tunes on which Divinity has played