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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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ked himself at once how he could make it serve his fellow men. Thegreat reapers of the harvest of truth commonly leave the inventor tomake practical use of their unregarded thought. Leaving the wide land to do justice to Franklin, the model citizenand great diplomatist, here we crown with the assured verdict of posterityFranklin, the man of pure science. Here we welcome him to this goodlyfellowship of those who communed with Nature and read the secretsof the Almighty Maker. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. Mr. President, Gentlemen: His Excellency, the German Ambassador, whom heavy officialduties retain at Washington, has requested me to represent him on thisoccasion and to express to you his hearty congratulations on this eventon which through Mr. Jesups generous munificence this commemora-tive tribute is paid to the worlds great masters of science, a day onwhich this magnificent museum of natural history has received a dona-tion which will awake a solemn sense of reverence and make this abode
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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Born, Berlin, September 14, 1769Died, Berlin, May 6, 1859 Geographer, traveler, philosopher Described the surface features and the geological structure of many lands henceforth a temple of devotion to the founders and promoters ofnatural science. Whoever honors the memory of great men, honors science andhonors himself, and so the Ambassador has asked me to convey to thegenerous donor, the tireless promoter of science, Mr. Jesup, the expres-sion of his sincerest admiration and of his heartfelt thanks for thehonor which will be conferred also upon the great German scholar,Alexander von Humboldt. In this immortal man, whose bust you have gathered to unveil, theworld reveres its greatest master since the days of Aristotle. His geniuscovered all that man has ever thought, done and observed in nature.There is no branch of human knowledge into which his mind did notpenetrate. His Cosmos, that marvellous monument of meditationand research, is a new book of Genesis in wh

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