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.


SIR WILLIAM LOGAN ASKS "THE WAY TO ALBANY."

Sir WILLIAM E. LOGAN, of Canada, in a brief speech acknowledged the
services rendered by the New-York Survey to Canada. He should manifest
ingratitude if he declined to unite in the joyful occasion of
inaugurating the Museum which was to hold forever the evidence of the
truth of its published results. The Survey of Canada had been ordered,
and the Commission of five years twice renewed; and the last time, the
provision for it was more than doubled. It happened to him, as Mr.
Agassiz had said: after crossing the ocean first, the first thing he
asked was, "Which is the way to Albany?" and when he arrived here, he
found that with the aid of Prof. Hall's discoveries, he had only to take
up the different formations as he had left them on the boundary line,
and follow them into Canada. It was both a convenience and a necessity
to adopt the New-York nomenclature, which was thus extended over an area
six times as large as New-York. In Paris he heard De Vernier using the
words Trenton and Niagara, as if they were household words. He was