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terest has continued through the period of the intricate and complex 

 developments in the airplane needed to meet the demands of the present 

 day; and from the school which he established, more than eight thousand 

 trained flyers manned the fighters of the air when they were most needed. 

 And for all of this we appreciate him. 



But perhaps we admire Dr. Hancock most of all for his comprehen- 

 sive understanding of the wider fields of education and for his devotion 

 to the conservation of past achievements, the spread of present-day knowl- 

 edge, and the support of that research which, adding to the sum total of 

 present-day knowledge, will make life richer in the future. His estab- 

 lishment of the Allan Hancock Foundation for Scientific Research is in 

 my thinking the surest and highest expression of his character. The ships 

 he built for his expeditions, culminating in the Velero IF, one of the 

 best-equipped scientific vessels afloat, express both his courage and his 

 determination. To care for the vast amount of material accumulated as 

 a result of his expeditions and to provide means whereby it could be 

 studied, he provided a building and equipped it with laboratories and 

 with an outstanding biological library. In this building is now housed a 

 unique collection including some of the most valuable and rare biological 

 materials in the world. From this library and these laboratories, through 

 this Foundation, the past speaks with emphasis, the present reveals the 

 world in all her wonders, and the future holds out encouragement and 

 hope to all who would seek to understand and obey the injunction "Know 

 thyself." 



And notwithstanding the long years of hard work and the many 

 important and critical projects which have consumed time and strength, 

 Dr. Allan Hancock still devotes himself to the conservation of the best 

 of the old and the discovery of the best of the new. His knowledge of 

 life and his capacity for making friends preserve his youth and his en- 

 thusiasm. May his days be crowned with satisfactions unnumbered ! For 

 all time he will live in the gratitude of the University of Southern Cali- 

 fornia, where he has invested so generously both of his treasure and of 

 himself, and in the hearts of all who love truth and seek it faithfully. 



RuFUS B. VON KleinSmid 



