In JlRpmortaiiL 



The Museum has been called to mourn the loss of one of 

 its original founders and First Vice-President, 



WILLIAM A. HAINES, 



who departed this life on the 5th day of March, 1880, in the 

 fifty-eighth year of his age. 



The following resolutions were unanimously adopted at a 

 special meeting of the Board of Trustees : 



Resolved, That this Board has received the tidings of the sudden death 

 of our Vice-President, Mr. W. A. Haines, with profound sorrow. 



Not only was Mr. Haines one of the number from whom this Institution 

 received its first impulse, but as Chairman of its Executive Committee, at 

 the expense of much valuable time, he continued the supervision of its 

 interests with unabated zeal. 



His natural tastes, no doubt, exercised a strong influence over Mr. Haines 

 in his early efforts for the establishment of the Museum. 



He was deeply interested in some of the branches of the Natural Sciences, 

 and in one specialty, as a collector and exact student, in the whole range of 

 the subject, he had probably no superior among us. 



His collection remains in its fullness and beauty, a monument of his 

 youthful enthusiasm, which the steady and engrossing pressure of business 

 life never extinguished. 



In his relations to this Board Mr. Haines brought to the discharge of 

 his duties a trained capacity for business; but it is not to the memory of 

 the valued and efficient officer, whose tastes and acquirements brought him 

 into entire harmony as well as active co-operation with its aims, and inspired 

 large and hopeful views of its future, that we now bring our united tribute, 

 so much as to that of the man himself. His death leaves a vacancy in the 

 hearts of those among us who have known him longest and best. 



As the useful and upright citizen we can measure him calmly at his just 

 value, but as the friend and intimate, in his considerateness and equipoise, 

 his sympathy and warmth, and in the whole moulding and outcome of the 

 man, there was that which drew us to him, not only with sincere esteem, 

 but with strong fraternal regard. 



A sense of private and personal loss may not obtrude conspicuously in 

 the official tribute which we pay so sadly to the memory of our deceased 

 Vice-President; but while we feel called upon to recognize in him, in a rare 

 degree, the possession of those valuable qualities which must enter freely 

 into the undertakings of our daily life, in their appropriate direction and 

 successful issue, we should be untrue to what is best in ourselves and most 

 to be prized in a just estimate of the character of men, did we confine our 

 view to these alone. 



He was not only the sound and judicious adviser and the energetic man 

 of business, but much more. There was about him a quality of refinement 

 united to singular purity, and a temper in which' decision and sweetness 

 remarkably combined. 



These made up, largely, that characteristic individuality which touched 

 the deeper springs within us, so that while as a Board we record our testi- 

 mony of the loss which we have sustained in him as one of our most promi- 

 nent and active officers, we also deeply mourn the friend and brother whom 

 we shall see no more- 



