APPRECIATIONS 437 
From a Speech in the Senate by the Hon. George F. Hoar 
of Massachusetts, July 28, 18883 
He was one of the great men of his day. Being paid 
for his services to science not by a salary but by simply 
having rendered them, that account was made up. But 
in addition to one man’s work he did voluntarily and with- 
out compensation in the services of this people the full 
work of two men more. He originated, organized, ad- 
ministered the great National Museum, and he rendered 
in that a service which as business men pay business 
agents would not have been half compensated by any 
salary like that which he was receiving as Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution. 
In addition to that he originated and executed experi- 
ments and scientific work, the result of which by the 
common consent of all men conversant with the subject 
is to be that it will be much easier not only to supply 
the present generation of Americans with healthful, abun- 
dant, and cheap food, but he has shown us how to support 
and feed the hundreds of millions who are to come to 
this continent from all parts of the world and who are 
to be born here for generations upon generations to come. 
That was a gratuity. That was the greatest benefaction, 
with very few exceptions if with any exception, which 
God has given it to any human being in our day to render 
to his kind. 
3 Congressional Record, Senate, Vol. 19, pt. 7, p. 6976. 
