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Mr Hubbard dated back only to the year 1893, 1 had learned to 

 look upon him as a friend and to appreciate his cordial greeting 

 when we met as one of the pleasant things in life. 



He was so young at heart and in appearance that I scarcely 

 realized that he was much my senior in years, and the announce- 

 ment of his death after so brief an illness came to me as an un- 

 expected shock. Those of us who knew him well will continue 

 to cherish his memory as that of a public-spirited citizen, a lover 

 of truth, a promoter of good works, and a trusted friend. 



President Bell : Mr Hubbard was a Regent of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and took great interest in its progress. I shall ask 

 Professor Langley and the Hon. William L. Wilson, President 

 of the Washington and Lee University and ex-Postmaster-Gen- 

 eral of the United States, to say a few words on behalf of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Professor Langley : I knew Mr Gardiner Hubbard for many 

 years, and I owe some of the very pleasantest hours of my Wash- 

 ington life to the kindness and hospitality I received in his home. 

 Among the many occupations of his own varied life there were 

 few in which he took more interest or was more zealous than in 

 his duties as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. It might 

 seem as if I, as Secretary of that Institution, could with propriety 

 give an account of his relations to it. That, however, can be 

 better given by another, and since we have here tonight the gen- 

 tleman whose name has just been mentioned, the late Postmaster- 

 General, who, as a resident of Washington, became not only a 

 Regent but a member of the executive committee and a col- 

 league of Mr Hubbard, and who comes here in spite of the en- 

 grossing duties of the University to speak to us tonight, I feel 

 that I cannot do better than to give place to him and ask him to 

 speak of one whom he knew so well in this connection, and whose 

 relations as a colleague have been more intimate than mine. 



Mr Wilson : To those who were permitted to enjoy the per- 

 sonal friendship of Mr Gardiner Hubbard and to garner up 

 gracious memories of intimate association with him, the first and 

 strongest impulse tonight naturally is to speak of him as a man, 

 to recall and commemorate the qualities and virtues that lay at 

 the foundation of all that he was and all that he did. The world 

 outside the circle of his acquaintances may sometimes have re- 

 garded him merely as a man of large possessions ; his occasional 

 fellow-workers in the varied fields of his activity and interests 

 doubtless regarded him as a man of great achievements. Those 



