HENRY CHARLES LEA. xxxvii 



a special tribute to Lord Alorley. Mr. Lea himself provided that 

 his library should in due course come to the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. In making this provision Air. Lea was manifestly actuated 

 by the hope that his collection might be of service to future genera- 

 tions of scholars. Such a collection should indeed become the nat- 

 ural center of the historical work done at the LTniversity, whither 

 students might come and find every facility for continuing those 

 researches that made Mr. Lea an example and an encouragement 

 for all who follow his love for the truth. The noblest memorial to 

 a great scholar is to provide for a continuance of his work. 



I trust, therefore, that I may be permitted to hope that the 

 priceless collection, so carefully gathered by Mr. Lea during his 

 long life, should be properly housed so as to make it most fully 

 serviceable and that amid worthy surroundings its very presence 

 may serve as an example to which the historians of the generations 

 to come might turn for fresh inspiration. 



Henry C. Lea needs no memorial. His achievements constitute 

 his monument, but it is important for our sake and for the sake of 

 the generations to come that his memory be kept alive and that the 

 recollection of his active and useful life and of his many-sided 

 labors be kept before us in a manner worthy of the man, the citizen, 

 the historian in whose honor we have gathered tonight. 



The President : 



The portrait of ]\Ir. Henry C. Lea, an admirable copy by Mr. 

 H. H. Breckenridge of Vonnoh's original painting, will be presented 

 to the Society by the representative of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, 

 Dr. S. Weir ^Mitchell, the third of our distinguished Philadelphia 

 triumvirate, whose own portraits in print rival in felicity those of 

 the artist on canvas. 



Dr. S. Weir ^Mitchell: 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Philosophical Society: I 

 have had the honor of being selected by the family and friends of 

 Mr. Henry Charles Lea to present to the Philosophical Society the 

 portrait of our greatest historian. The portrait I thus place in the 

 custody of the society is a copy of the well-known portrait by 



