James Madison.

To the music of "Hail Columbia" the procession moved to the platform in the Statesmen's Corner in the Colonnade. The Chancellor said:

The One Hundred Electors have by a majority of votes added to the seven names chosen by them in the year 1900 two new names. The first of these in point of age is James Madison, who was born 156 years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing his name is assigned to the Sons of the Revolution, who are represented to-day by Howard Randolph Bayne, Edmund Wetmore, Clarence W. Bowen, Chrystie Few Nicholson and Robert II. Oakley. I have the honor of introducing as their speaker, Mr. Howard Randolph Bayne.

Mr. Bayne said:

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James Madison, more than any other man, prepared the way to that more perfect union" which we enjoy to-day. By cogent .statesmanship and tactful patriotism, harmonizing divergent interests and subduing sectional antagonisms, he well deserved the distinguished cognomen, "Father of the Constitution." All of the ten amendments to that instrument, adopted during his public life, had been proposed by him.

In constructive statesmanship he excelled all the men of his time. As Member of Congress under the new Constitution he was the organizer and director of its business. Measures creating the Revenue and Departments of Foreign Affairs, the Treasury, War, and other originals of our complicated system were proposed by him and passed into law.

Though leader of the opposition at a period when party spirit was extremely bitter, the President was accustomed to seek his views on all important measures. His counsel was ever on such occasions with rare fidelity to high patriotism and lofty ideals.

As Secretary of State under Jefferson for eight years, as President for an equal period, he passed through times of rancorous political strife without one reproach that history justifies or posterity approves.

The marriage of General Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler was most fortunate; her domestic virtues made his home a haven of rest and freed from petty cares he devoted all his energies to the service of his country. His pen was mightier than his sword. His great work was the Federal Constitution.

General Morgan Lewis endeavored to prevent the duel. Hamilton answered: "I allowed my son to accept a challenge; he fell. I cannot recede!"

William Stewart, in a letter to his nephew, Phil Church, described the closing scene: "Doctor Hosack gives no hope. Mrs. Hamilton remains at the bedside of her husband. The General retains his patience and fortitude and is perfectly aware of his situation!"

Thus passed away from earth Alexander Hamilton.

The Chancellor said:

Louis Agassiz.

The third, in point of age, among Famous Americans of Foreign Birth is Louis Agassiz, who was born one hundred years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing his name is assigned to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which is represented here to-day by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., and Dr. Edward S. Morse, Director of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. Inasmuch as by a happy coincidence we are this year celebrating the centennial of Agassiz, I shall have the honor of calling upon each of these delegates to speak in his memory to-day.

Doctor Morse courteously excused himself from reading his paper because of its length, but presented a few facts of the career of Agassiz, and Doctor Walcott spoke as follows:

Louis Agassiz was a man of simple but intensely active life. Coming to us in 1848 for a special purpose he met with so cordial a reception that flattering offers from European institutions could not induce him to return; and, although such a life as his cannot be limited by boundaries of space or time, we feel

a peculiar pleasure and satisfaction in placing his name among those of our great men in this, our Hall of Fame.

Agassiz was not only a pioneer in scientific investigation and achievement, but one of the first to combine the qualities of a great naturalist, leader of men, and lover of the masses of the people. We sometimes forget that many of the fundamental conceptions which underlie so much of the science of to-day are the products of his genius and the fruitage of his many years of labor. He taught American students how to think in terms of science and he taught the American nation that to science it owed good will and cordial support.

Few men have lived who combined such breadth of intellect with such a fascinating personality, such genuine sincerity, such openness and warmth of manner, such depth of religious nature, such perfect unselfishness, and such devotion to science.

To Agassiz nothing was commonplace. He marshalled facts and ever kept them at command in the hope that they might throw light on some one of the great problems which he realized were to press more and more insistently for solution. The enduring value of his contributions to science is due to the soundness of the principles underlying them. At twenty-two years of age Martius recognized his rare ability by allowing him to edit a volume on Brazilian fishes; and at twenty-five Cuvier transferred to him the treasures he had gathered for his work on fossil fishes. This early recognition stimulated him greatly and led him to master every subject that he undertook to investigate. Some one has said respecting him that there never was a man with an "intellect more thoroughly disciplined, or less hampered by the abundance of the material on which it worked."

Agassiz's extraordinary geniality and the sincerity of his manner drew every one to him. The acknowledged leader of a group including Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Longfellow, and Hawthorne was the friend of laborers and fishermen who took a childish delight in gathering specimens for the "Great Professor."

He measured men by a high standard, and created a new environment for himself. Those who loved him lived in mansions and in huts; he imbued the rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant alike, with an appreciation of the beauties of the

science he loved, and with his almost matchless enthusiasm for noble ideals in life. In fact, it was as a leader of men, as the teacher of thousands who gained inspiration and power from his boundless enthusiasm and his loving personality, that he was most widely known.

Agassiz's life was a continual proof of his superiority over selfinterest and his consecration to science. He declared that he could not afford to waste his time in making money. He declined the chair of zoology at Heidelberg when by accepting it he would have more than doubled his income, and he successfully opposed the making of his name a part of the official designation, both of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and of the Anderson School of Natural History on Penikese Island. It would be difficult to measure his influence in the way of causing men of political and commercial power to realize that the support of scientific research and the diffusion of the knowledge thereby gained, depend largely on them.

Men are now more and more contributing to the advancement of science under the impulse of a sentiment Agassiz created; he set a new standard for the art of teaching; the first recognition of ice as a great geologic agent was due chiefly to his investigations; and, as a result of his work on fossil fishes, there was established a fundamental law which has since found expression in the words, Ontogeny repeats phylogeny," a law which, it would seem, is destined to guide biologists for numberless generations.

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Many of us knew Louis Agassiz personally, perhaps a few of us knew him intimately, and our admiration of his genius and our love of the man were and are almost unbounded. Here in this noble building we now place a visible token of this Nation's admiration of his great intellect, of its realization of the debt it owes him for his consecration to science, and of its love for his simple but sublime character, assured that the coming generation cannot fail to realize his claim to their regard as "the first naturalist of his time, a good citizen, and a good son, beloved of those who knew him."

To the music of the platform in the Chancellor said:

James Madison.

Hail Columbia" the procession moved to Statesmen's Corner in the Colonnade. The

The One Hundred Electors have by a majority of votes added to the seven names chosen by them in the year 1900 two new names. The first of these in point of age is James Madison, who was born 156 years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing his name is assigned to the Sons of the Revolution, who are represented to-day by Howard Randolph Bayne, Edmund Wetmore, Clarence W. Bowen, Chrystie Few Nicholson and Robert H. Oakley. I have the honor of introducing as their speaker, Mr. Howard Randolph Bayne.

Mr. Bayne said:

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James Madison, more than any other man, prepared the way to that more perfect union" which we enjoy to-day. By cogent .statesmanship and tactful patriotism, harmonizing divergent interests and subduing sectional antagonisms, he well deserved the distinguished cognomen, "Father of the Constitution." All of the ten amendments to that instrument, adopted during his public life, had been proposed by him.

In constructive statesmanship he excelled all the men of his time. As Member of Congress under the new Constitution he was the organizer and director of its business. Measures creating the Revenue and Departments of Foreign Affairs, the Treasury, War, and other originals of our complicated system were proposed by him and passed into law.

Though leader of the opposition at a period when party spirit was extremely bitter, the President was accustomed to seek his views on all important measures. His counsel was ever on such occasions with rare fidelity to high patriotism and lofty ideals.

As Secretary of State under Jefferson for eight years, as President for an equal period, he passed through times of rancorous political strife without one reproach that history justifies or posterity approves.