GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD 41 



Board of Managers, the members of which personally carried his 

 body to the grave. 



Mr Hubbard was a man of large views. I know of no man 

 who could take so broad a view of things as he could or who was 

 so well fitted to occupy the position to which he was elected in 

 this city, and which he esteemed above every other honor of his 

 life, the position of President of the Joint Commission of the 

 Scientific Societies of Washington. His views were not confined 

 to narrow horizons. Without making any claim to be a spe- 

 cialist in science himself, he had an exceedingl} 7 clear concep- 

 tion of the relations of the sciences one to another, and he was 

 therefore admirably fitted to be the president of such an organ- 

 ization as the Joint Commission. We'who are more especially 

 identified with the National Geographic Societ}^ feel that our 

 friend and leader has been taken from us, and I know that in 

 the Joint Commission a similar feeling is expressed. I will call 

 upon Gen. George M. Sternberg, Surgeon-General of the United 

 States Army, who is Acting- President of the Joint Commission 

 of the Scientific Societies of Washington, to speak to us on be- 

 half of that body. 



Surgeon-General Sternberg : It is my privilege to pay a brief 

 tribute to the memory of my departed friend and late associate 

 upon the Joint Commission of the Scientific Societies of Wash- 

 ington, Mr Gardiner G. Hubbard. 



Mr Hubbard was elected President of the Joint Commission 

 at a time when this organization was in a state of unstable equi- 

 librium, due to differences of opinion as to the nature and extent 

 of the powers which should be conferred upon it by the several 

 societies whose governing boards constituted its membership. 

 He looked upon it as an organization which, properly directed, 

 might accomplish useful results in the diffusion of scientific in- 

 formation and which would prove a bond of union between the 

 scientific societies of Washington and enable them to act together 

 in matters of common interest. These objects commanded his 

 sympathy and active cooperation, and from the time of its re- 

 organization with increased membership and extended powers, 

 in January, 1895, to the day of his death Mr Hubbard was the 

 president of this body. We owe much to his experience and 

 skill as a presiding officer, to his practical methods of dealing 

 with business matters coming before the Executive Committee, 

 and to his cordial sympathy with the objects in view. If, as we 

 now hope, the Joint Commission, by a natural process of evolu- 



