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barometer, winds and cloudiness — and for each day's observations 

 thirty-nine different columns of tables were required to be filled out, 

 and at the end of each month nineteen different and additional col- 

 umns, to contain the results of monthly averages. And yet up to 

 only two days before his death Mr. Gardiner had filled out these ta- 

 bles himself. At the end of the month he has been many times 

 known to work till 2 o'clock in the morning making out his aver- 

 ages and copying the tables for the Smithsonian and the public press. 

 All this work was conscientiously performed for j^ears, not only with 

 no compensation, but at a considerable personal expense for instru- 

 ments and apparatus. The Smithsonian regarded him as one of its 

 best correspondents. In view of the value of these records and their 

 increasing importance to science the longer they are continued, it is 

 a matter for public congratulation that they were taken up at the 

 point where Mr. Gardiner's accurate but weary hand stopped its 

 work, and are now continued by Rev. Charles L. Wells, the rector 

 of Christ Church. 



Mr. Gardiner became a member of our Society' in 1877, and took 

 great interest in its exhibitions and meetings. Whenever possible 

 he was a large exhibitor, and so long as health allowed attended all 

 our winter meetings. At the annual meeting of the Society held at 

 Lewiston in 1880, Mr. Gardiner was elected President, and received 

 a re-election for three successive years following. His annual ad- 

 dresses, although generally brief, were well written, contained good 

 thought, correct information and were chiefly devoted to apple orchard- 

 ing, the specialty in which he was most interested. All his energies 

 seemed to be engaged in behalf of our Society and its work, and 

 many are the members who will long remember his animated pres- 

 ence and cheerful conversation while in attendance upon our meetings 

 and exhibitions. 



Mr. Gardiner was a member of the New England Meteorological 

 Society, and of the Maine Historical Society. In the objects and 

 work of the last named he was much interested, and the occasions 

 were very rare when he did not attend its regular meetings at Bruns- 

 wick and Portland, as well as its summer excursions. 



The estate at Oaklands comprises about four hundred acres. It is 

 one of the most lovel}^ spots on one of the most beautiful of our 

 Maine rivers — in the midst of fine and varied scenei-y. The mansion- 

 house was built in 1835-36. It is of Hallowell granite, in the English 

 style of architecture of the time of Henry VIII, with buttresses, tur- 



