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ure, but of life. Most noteworthy has been his devotion, as you 

 have ahead}'' been told, from, an early period of his life, to the 

 welfare of the deaf. He was one of the first to believe that they 

 could be taught to speak with their lips, and he lived to see this 

 belief transferred from the domain of faith to that of fact. 

 ■ As I recall the manifold subjects I have heard him discuss, I 

 know not which is the more remarkable, the range of his sym- 

 pathy or the depth of his goodwill. The possible relief of Helen 

 Kellar ; now a rare print that he had acquired or an attractive 

 book he was reading ; now the Garfield hospital ; now the mem- 

 ory of Abraham Lincoln, or the story of Napoleon Bonaparte, 

 of Greely, Melville, or Nansen ; now the promotion of interna- 

 tional intercourse and the prevention of war; now the relief of 

 the Armenians; the possible establishment of a National Uni- 

 versity; now the awards to be bestowed upon exhibitors at At- 

 lanta and at Nashville; now and always the support of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, the Geological Survey, and every scientific 

 bureau supported by the Government. 



The graces of a good ancestry, of a liberal education, and of 

 wide intercourse with his fellowmen, and of a home where the 

 refinement and affection of a devoted wife and children were 

 supreme, enriched his life and adorned his character. His heart 

 craved sympathy; he must keep in touch with those whom he 

 trusted — by speech, by print, by mail, by wire. Few men val- 

 ued friendship as he valued it, and the much that he required 

 he returned with ample usury. 



Public station would not have increased his influence nor 

 added to his happiness; it would have fettered his spontaneity 

 and his impulses. It is as dear friend ; considerate, helpful, and 

 strong, versatile and suggestive, that we who have known him 

 well now call him venerable and beloved because he was the 

 helper of his fellowmen. 



President Bell: Mr Hubbard's great interest in the advance- 

 ment of science in America led to the foundation of an inde- 

 pendent scientific journal for the use of scientific men on this 

 continent, and I shall call upon Major J. W. Powell, Director of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, Associate Editor of Science, 

 and ex-Director of the United States Geological Survey, to speak 

 on behalf of the journal Science. 



Major Powell: This is an age of specialized literature. The 

 daily papers serve a daily purpose; but when the day is gone 

 the paper is gone. A flame is kindled twenty-four hours after 



