658 HORATIO HOLLIS HUNNEWELL. 



Botanical Museum at Cambridge. His interest in the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum began with the inception of that undertaking and ceased only 

 with his life. He was one of the largest benefactors of the Arboretum, 

 where the Hunnewell Building is a witness of his interest in increasing 

 the knowledge of trees. One of the last acts of his life was to endow 

 the Botanical Department of Wellesley College. 



For forty-five years Mr. Hunnewell was an active member of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, rendering it valuable service for 

 thirty-four years as a member of its Finance Committee, during nine- 

 teen of which he was Chairman of that important Committee, and as 

 Vice-President for eleven years. Much of the success of this Society 

 is due to his wise management of its finances and his unfailing interest 

 in its exhibitions. For twenty-six years Mr. Hunnewell served the 

 Massachusetts Humane Society as a Trustee, and for five years as its 

 President. His liberality was not confined to the advancement of bot- 

 any and horticulture. No appeal in behalf of a worthy object was made 

 to him in vain. In Wellesley a public library, a town hall, and a public 

 park are monuments to his public spirit. The Public Library in his 

 native town and the hospitals and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 

 shared in his success. 



Simple in tastes, unassuming, modest and retiring, hospitable without 

 ostentation, of broad sympathies, interested to the end in all that inter- 

 ested three generations of his descendants, happy with his trees and with 

 his flowers, which never failed to delight him, happiest in making others 

 happy, loved and respected by old and young, our associate lived wisely, 

 and in his life gave an example of public spirit, enterprise, generosity, 

 and kindliness of high value to the community. To those who knew 

 him the recollection of this friend is a delight and an inspiration. 



C. S. Sargent. 



