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While the death of Mr. Mills did not occur until January 

 3, 1910, we desire to record in this, the Report of 1909, the 

 resolution which was adopted at the Annual Meeting of the 

 Trustees, February 14, 1910: 



This Board records with sorrow its tribute to the 

 late 



Darius Ogden Mills 



for twenty-eight years one of its number. 



Mr. Mills was elected a Trustee February 13, 

 1882, and a year later was made a member of the 

 Finance Committee, on which he continued to serve 

 until his death. He was one of the four members of 

 the Committee appointed in 1892 to consider ar- 

 rangements for educational cooperation, and he also 

 served on the Nominating Committee and was its 

 Chairman for over fifteen years. 



The Museum is indebted to Mr. Mills for many 

 generous gifts. 



Since the foundation of the Museum forty-odd 

 years ago many prominent and distinguished men 

 have served on the Board of Trustees, but none 

 whose presence was more welcome than that of Mr. 

 Mills. Quiet and gentle in manner, sound in judg- 

 ment and wise in counsel, modest and simple but 

 full of good sense, just and true in every dealing, he 

 was loved and appreciated by all who knew him. His 

 death on January third leaves his fellow Trustees of 

 this Board with a feeling of profound sense of loss 

 and with the greatest admiration for his fine and lov- 

 able qualities of character. 



