APPRECIATIONS 437 



From a Speech in the Senate by the Hon. George F. Hoar 

 of Massachusetts, July 28, 1888* 



He was one of the great men of his day. Being paid 

 for his services to science not by a salary but by simply 

 having rendered them, that account was made up. But 

 in addition to one man's work he did voluntarily and with- 

 out compensation in the services of this people the full 

 work of two men more. He originated, organized, ad- 

 ministered the great National Museum, and he rendered 

 in that a service which as business men pay business 

 agents would not have been half compensated by any 

 salary like that which he was receiving as Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



In addition to that he originated and executed experi- 

 ments and scientific work, the result of which by the 

 common consent of all men conversant with the subject 

 is to be that it will be much easier not only to supply 

 the present generation of Americans with healthful, abun- 

 dant, and cheap food, but he has shown us how to support 

 and feed the hundreds of millions who are to come to 

 this continent from all parts of the world and who are 

 to be born here for generations upon generations to come. 

 That was a gratuity. That was the greatest benefaction, 

 with very few exceptions if with any exception, which 

 God has given it to any human being in our day to render 

 to his kind. 



3 Congressional Record, Senate, Vol. 19, pt. 7, p. 6976. 



