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intellect and personality. Though denied strength of body or 

 length of days, it has been his high privilege to love nature and 

 to extend widely the bounds of human knowledge. Possessed of 

 unrivalled powers of observation and depth of insight, broad cul 

 ture, accurate judgment, and a kindly spirit, he has lived a life 

 and accomplished a work which render his memory secure in the 

 affectionate regard of his contemporaries, as well as in the un 

 qualified admiration of all naturalists who maay follow in the 

 lines of his unique studies. 



Resolved, That the Society, through its Secretary, transmit to 

 the family of our late President this expression of its appreciation 

 of his noble qualities, and of its sincere sympathy in the deep 

 sorrow of a loss so irreparable. 



Resolved further, That a committee be appointed to prepare 

 a biographical sketch of our late President for publication in the 

 Proceedings of the Society. 



Some extended remarks were made by Messrs. Gill and 

 Schwarz on the character and work of Mr. Hubbard, the Acting 

 President appointing a committee, consisting of Messrs. Schwarz, 

 Howard and Cook, to prepare the biographical sketch mentioned 

 in the third resolution. 



HENRY GUERNSEY HUEBARD. 



Henry Guernsey Hubbard, sixth President of this Society and 

 the third to be removed by the hand of death, breathed his last at 

 Crescent City, Florida, January 18, 1899. He was born at De 

 troit, Michigan, May 6, 1850 His father, Bela P. Hubbard, a 

 prominent citizen of Detroit, and a man of strong scientific ten 

 dencies, was one of the founders of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science and was deeply interested in botany, 

 forestry, arboriculture, and archeology. His mother was of 

 German descent, and from both parents Henry Hubbard inherited 

 a love of nature. As a mere boy he was well acquainted with the 

 life-habits of the birds, mammals and other wild creatures about 



