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SCIENCE. 



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and in that address there are a few words 

 which seem to me as applicable to Major 

 Powell as they were to Professor Baird, 

 and I will read them. He said, speaking 

 of Professor Baird: 



" ' In his work with his assistants he scrupu- 

 lously provided that every one should receive the 

 meed of honor due for successful research and he 

 treated all with generosity, ilany an investiga- 

 tion begun by himself was turned over to assist- 

 ants when he found that valuable conclusions 

 could be reached; and these assistants, Avho were 

 his warm friends, his younger brothers, reaped 

 the reward; and he had more joy over every 

 young man's success than over the triumphs and 

 honors heaped upon himself from every quarter 

 of the globe. He was the sympathetic counselor 

 of many men; into his ears were poured the sor- 

 rows and joys of others, and he mourned with 

 the mourning and rejoiced with the rejoicing. 

 To those in need his hand was ready and his 

 purse was open, and many were the poor who 

 called him " blessed." Though a man of great 

 force of character, a man of great learning, a man 

 upon whom had been showered the honors of the 

 scientific world, in character he was as simple as 

 a child.' " 



Doctor Gilman then spoke as follows: 

 "When I arrived from Europe last even- 

 ing, after a long absence, the first thing 

 which reached me was a moitrning letter. 

 I opened it and read the sad announcement 

 that has called us here to-day. There are 

 others far more competent than I am to 

 give utterance to the sentiments of affec- 

 tion and respect which have brought us 

 together, in this home of science, before we 

 bear the body to the tomb. I came here 

 not to speak, but to bear silent testimony 

 to the work of our departed friend. 



"Grief has many languages for its ex- 

 pression. There is the language of silence, 

 the dumb utterance of sorrow. There is 

 the language of flowers and foliage, the 

 forget-me-nots and immortelles, the ivy of 

 friendship and the palm leaves of victory, 

 upon which we are looking. Grief has 

 the language of tears, and there are those 

 who are weeping now and who will con- 



tinue to weep in the lonely hoiirs that are 

 to come. But why should we, his scien- 

 tific friends, mourn for one whose labors 

 are over, whose troubles are ended, whose 

 reputation is established, who has forsaken 

 the mortal frame in which he toiled and 

 suffered for so many years, and has gone 

 to his rest and his reward? There is also 

 the language of clear discrimination, of 

 justice and of eulogy, the review of all that 

 such a man has accomplished— the language 

 to which, no doubt, we shall listen at an- 

 other time. 



"At the moment let us employ the lan- 

 guage of friendship, whether our voices 

 speak, or only our hearts. Let us think 

 of this departed leader as our friend and 

 i-ecall his characteristics. He began as a 

 gallant and fearless soldier, who lost a limb 

 in the service of his country; he became a 

 courageous and successful explorer, accom- 

 plished one of the most marvelous feats 

 in the record of geographical science; he 

 came again to the front as the promoter 

 of many branches of science, complex and 

 difficult, and the conciliator of divergent 

 views in respect to legislation. Every- 

 where and always he was the friend of 

 those who were working for the advance- 

 ment of knowledge, a friend on whom we 

 relied, whose voice was always buoyant 

 and cheerful, whose bearing was always 

 hopeful and optimistic, whose strength 

 was always in the confidence of the things 

 he had accomplished and of the things he 

 knew would come to pass, whose judgment 

 was always persuasive. 



"As I stand here. I think of him presid- 

 ing over a meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science in 

 Boston, where, attracted by his many en- 

 dearing qualities and particularly by his 

 genial manner, many men became his 

 friends. I remember the address com- 

 memorating Professor Baird from which 

 an appropriate selection has just been read. 



