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which, as in the case of the one of Secretary Henry, might 
be placed in the Regents’ Room in perpetual remembrance 
of him. 
Senator Morrill then read the following resolution, 
which was adopted: 
Resolved: 'That the Secretary be requested to have a 
life-size portrait of the late Secretary of the Institution 
(Spencer F. Baird) painted by some competent artist, 
which, when finished, may be preserved in the room occu- 
pied by the Regents for their meetings. 
From a Letter of Hon. George F. Edmunds to William H. 
Dall. 
PasapENA, Cat., Nov. 19, 1913. 
For myself “I wish to say that I knew Professor Baird 
intimately from the first year of my service in the Senate 
until the end of his life. I have never known a man who 
largely exercised public duties who combined more than 
he, great technical skill and ordered discipline in the sphere 
of all his activities with personal gentleness and sympathy, 
or who was more readily supported by his subordinates 
in hard work and in affectionate and almost reverent 
feeling. 
‘““T never heard him speak unkindly to or of any of his 
official associates, or indeed of anybody else, and he was 
always ready to assist people both in and out of his official 
career in respect of everything they submitted to his 
notice. In all the intercourse of our two families I felt 
toward him as if he were an elder brother. 
“With his great accomplishments he united great 
modesty, and never self-assertion,—a true man in the 
best and broadest sense of the term.” 
