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The Trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton direct that a Minute be made in the permanent records 

 of the Institution expressive of their sorrow for the loss 

 of their associate John Hay, who died on the first day of 

 July, nineteen hundred and five, while holding the office 

 of Secretary of State of the United States. 



Mr. Hay was one of the small body of gentlemen who 

 gave their aid and counsel to Mr. Carnegie in maturing 

 and inaugurating the plans of the Institution ; he was one 

 of the original incorporators and was, from the beginning, 

 a Trustee and a member of the Executive Committee. 

 His catholic interest in every cause that makes for the 

 good of mankind found a ready place for genuine and 

 active sympathy with the work proposed by Mr. Carnegie, 

 and, although burdened by official cares to the limit of his 

 strength, he gave to that work invaluable time and thought 

 and the strength of his noble character and his great name. 

 The peculiar charm of his companionship made the most 

 tedious task undertaken with him agreeable. We have 

 all of us lost a personal friend, and science has lost a 

 powerful ally and patron. 



