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pleasure of meeting him, and ever found him genial and ready to give 

 freely of his store of knowledge to an inquiring student. 



In 1868-69, we were again intimately associated on the occasion 

 of his trip to Europe, when he delegated to me his position as Perma- 

 nent Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and the editorship of the Chicago and Salem volumes of Pro- 

 ceedings. Again, in 1872, when he was elected President of the 

 Association and resigned the office of Permanent Secretary, it fell to 

 my lot to succeed him in the Secretaryship. 



This election to the Presidency was not only a unanimous offering 

 of the Association to a distinguished member, but also a merited 

 recognition of his long and faithful service as its trusted executive 

 officer. 



Professor Lovering was the second Permanent Secretary of the 

 Association, and was elected in 1854 as the successor to Professor 

 Baird. He filled the position for nineteen years, and it is well known 

 by the older members that his efforts were unceasing in fostering the 

 objects of the Association. He fully believed in the benefits which 

 would accrue to American science from these annual gatherings of 

 scientific men in different parts of the country. In conversation on 

 this subject, he always expressed his firm belief in the important work 

 of the Association, and the advantage to be derived from this united 

 effort to encourage and develop scientific work by interesting hundreds 

 of cultured men and women in scientific objects, and by stimulating 

 isolated workers to greater exertion. Eminently social and agreeable, 

 he always took great pleasure in these gatherings of kindred spirits, 

 and was an almost constant attendant at the meetings until the last 

 few years of his life. His advice in the Council meetings of the 

 Association, while always somewhat conservative, was nevertheless 

 favorable to progress. His remarks were always earnest, but never 

 hasty or passionate, and were so sure to carry conviction that his 

 views of a subject generally prevailed. 



For the third time we were brought into intimate official relations 

 when as President of the Academy, in 1888, Professor Lovering be- 

 came a Trustee of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology 

 and Ethnology of Harvard University, as the successor of the late 

 Professor Asa Gray. In this office he was always prompt in attend- 

 ance at the meetings of the Board and often visited the Museum, in 

 which he was greatly interested. 



While Professor Lovering was always serious in his work, and 

 when speaking upon important subjects, yet no one liked better than 



