FRANCIS AMASA WALKER. 639 



Ten years trustee of Amherst. 



President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1881 till his death. 



He was appointed deputy special commissioner of the revenue in the service of the 

 United States January 15, 1869. 



He was then made Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, and held that office until he 

 was appointed Superintendent of the Ninth Census in 1870. 



He became Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 



Superintendent of the Ninth Census until he was appointed Superintendent of the 

 Tenth Census, April 1, 1879. He held that office till 1881. 



He was chief of the bureau of awards at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. 



Member of the school committee of New Haven from 1877 to 1880. 



Member of the boaixl of education of Connecticut, 1878 to 1881. 



United States Commissioner at the Monetary Conference at Paris in 1878. 



Member of the Massachusetts board of education from 1882 to 1890. 



Lecturer in Johns Hopkins University, 1877 to 1879. 



Lecturer in Harvard University in 1882, 1883, and 1896. 



Chairman of the Massachusetts Topographical Survey Commission, 1884 to 1890 



Member of the school committee of Boston, 1885 to 1888. 



Member of art commission of Bostt)n from 1890 till he died. 



Member of park commission of Boston, 1890 to 1896. 



Chairman of the Massachusetts board of the World's Fair Managers, 1892 to 1894 



Trustee of the Boston Public Library in 1896. 



President of the American Statistical Association from 1882 until his death. 



Vice-president of the National Academy of Sciences. 



He helped to found the International Statistical Institute, of which he was an 

 honorary member and pr6sident-adjoint. 



President of the American Economic Association from 1885 till 1892. 



President of the Society of Arts. 



Vice-president of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts from 1891 to his 

 death. 



Vice-president of the American Society for the Promotion of Profit Sharing from 

 1892 till his death. 



Vice-president of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers from 1892 

 till his death. 



An officer of the French Legion of Honor. 



Perhaps this enumeration may seem tedious; yet it is by no means 

 complete. It is peculiar to this man that the bare, naked catalogue of 

 his useful deeds is too long to leave room for comment if the sketch of 

 his life is to be within moderate bounds. The offices he filled have no 

 glamour about them. When filled by a great man they are great offices : 

 when filled by an insignificant man they are insignificant. He gave 

 dignity to every place he held. 



The ease with which he passed from one field of service to another, 

 which we seldom find among eminent men of other countries, and 

 which, indeed, the structure of their society renders impossible, was 

 characteristic of him, even as compared with his own countrymen. 

 His intellect never seemed jaded or strained. He worked rapidly, but 

 he rarely gave the impression of being hurried in his intellectual work 

 and never of being tired. He had light without heat, although quite 

 capable of lofty enthusiasm and deep affection, as witness his eulogies 

 on Hancock and Devens. 



He did his work with a quietness which concealed its power. He 

 was not a little, rattling steam engine that goes puffing and smoking 



