LONDON. As an English member I would testify to the unique regard in which Mr. Holley was held here as an engineer and man. I would add an humble personal tribute to his memory as metallurgist, brilliant engineer, and generous friend. SIDNEY GILCHRIST THOMAS. WORKINGTON, WEST CUMBERLAND, ENGLAND. I express my deepest sympathy with Mr. Holley's friends and countrymen in the irreparable loss sustained by them, and by us, through his departure. G. J. SNELUS. MIDDLESBORO', ENGLAND. I exceedingly regret that Mr. Holley has passed away from us. I join you all in spirit to-day in praise of his memory. WINDSOR RICHARDS. BLAENAVON, WALES. We all mourn him, and shall miss him greatly. E. P. MARTIN. LONDON. Having travelled with friend Holley all over Europe, few can better testify to his talent and amiable character, and how deeply I may, perhaps, be permitted to add my own personal testimony to his worth and merits. His fascinating manner had a peculiar charm for all with whom he was brought into contact, while the uprightness of his character was beyond dispute. I remain, sir, Your obedient servant, Extract from the Minutes of Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 21st day of February, 1882. Moved, seconded, and "Resolved, unanimously, This Council desire to record their high sense of the eminent qualities of the recently deceased member of the Institution, Alexander Lyman Holley, of New York city, which had won for him universal respect and esteem. "Resolved, That in view of the Special Session of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, to be held in Washington on Wednesday afternoon, February 22d, in memory of the late Alexander Lyman Holley, the substance of the above Resolution be conveyed by telegram to Mr. Drown, the Secretary of the Institute." his European friends show the sorrow felt at his loss. The friendship for Holley in Europe was strong as steel and good as Swedish iron. United in this mournful condolence are Schneider, of Creusot, France; Greiner, of Seraing, Belgium; Longsdon, of Krupp's, Germany; Akermann, of Sweden; and numerous friends in England from whom I have received letters expressing deep sorrow. Honor to the land that produced such a man. Our consolation is that Alexander Lyman Holley is now "formed in a better mould." C. P. SANDBERG.* DELORO, ONTARIO, CANADA. You know the important work that detains me. my regret at being unable to attend the meeting of the Institute. My whole heart is with you, and I desire especially to bear my testimony to the rare gifts which placed our Holley among the very first engineers of any age, and commanded the love, esteem, and admiration of all who knew him. Learned, skilful, discriminating, sound in judgment, and unprejudiced; unstinted in sympathy and appreciation for the work of his fellow-laborers; warm-hearted, * The Secretary subsequently received the following letters: PARIS, le 27 Fevrier, 1882. Mr. C. P. Sandberg, ingénieur à Londres, m'informe qu'il a associé mon nom au témoignage de condoléance et de sympathie, dont il a près l'initiative au nom des ami de feu Alexander Lyman Holley en Europe. J'ai l'honneur de vous faire savoir que j'approuve complètement les sentiments qui ont dicté la dépèche qu'il vous a adressée à cette occasion, et ji profite de la circonstance pour vous exprimer la part que ji prends personellement aux éloges et aux regrets des amis de Mr. Holley en Amérique. Venillez agréer, Monsieur, l'assurance de ma considération la plus distinguée. H. SCHNEIDER. ESSEN, GERMANY, Feb. 27, 1882. [TO MR. SANDBERG.] Please accept my best thanks for kindly including my name in the cablegram of those who mourned the loss of our friend Holley. I had the profoundest admiration for the character of our late friend; for with all his excellent gifts that brought him prominently to the front, there was the true modesty of a gentleman. His judgment was always clear and distinct, while his knowledge was profound. America has lost much in losing him; and I am glad to see all that is being done to honor his memory. His friends will never forget him, and enemies I am sure he has none. Again thanking you, believe me, Yours, very truly, ALFRED LONGSDON. brave, faithful, and incorruptible, our Holley has builded in his works and in our affection a monument such as few in any age have deserved or received. R. P. ROTHWELL, of New York city. READING, PA. Regret I cannot be present to do honor to the memory of the lamented Holley. He always dispensed generously the knowledge he so easily and intelligently acquired, and was a benefactor of mankind. W. E. C. CoXE. After the reading of letters and telegrams, Mr. Weeks spoke as follows: J. D. WEEKS, of Pittsburgh, Pa.: It was not my privilege to know Mr. Holley as long as some of those who have spoken, but I remember that a few years ago, in this very city, at the time he was President of this Institute, I met Mr. Holley. As a newspaper man I asked him for those favors that newspaper men are accustomed to ask of men of influence and position. I found him kind, generous, friendly; and I have always found him so at every time that I have approached him. And I wish to bear testimony, in behalf of the technical and scientific press of this country, to their friend, to their fellow-laborer-for Alexander Holley was one of us in the early years of his life, and in his after-years as an author, also, he was one of us— -I wish to bear testimony to the extreme courtesy, to the great kindness, and the great disinterestedness with which he has always met us, and with which he has always given. us the best that he had to give. I thought, when reference was made to his connection with the Bessemer process, that he had merited and should have received as high honor as that man to whom he is only second.* And yet what matters it? He was Alexander the Conqueror in the arts; he is Alexander crowned king in our hearts, whose reign shall never end with the words, "The king is dead." When our chairman so beautifully referred to that sketch that our friend Holley made, there rushed to my mind that wonderful poem of Emerson, in which he describes the * The Bessemer medal was subsequently sent by the British Iron and Steel Institute to the family of Mr. Holley. feelings, thoughts, aspirations, and motives that animated the cathedral builders in those old times. You remember the words: "Himself from God he could not free. He builded better than he knew; and, as our chairman has so admirably said, has grown into the white glory of Milan or the stately splendor of York. I recalled the majestic cathedral of York as we saw its glories. We went down and down and down with the verger, and he showed us, beneath the foundation of the cathedral, another foundation that dated back in the Dark Ages, when they had builded a beautiful cathedral to testify to what their ideas of glory and grandeur were. In the coming days, in the grand social reform that has been spoken of, mankind will see a structure more grand and more glorious than that which exists at York. You and I may not live to help construct it, or to admire and explore it; but somebody else will have found the foundation that Alexander Lyman Holley laid, broad and deep and strong, and builded thereon a structure worthy of his thought. I wish, Mr. Chairman, in closing, to offer these RESOLUTIONS. Resolved, That in the death of Alexander Lyman Holley, formerly President of the Institute, we mourn the departure, not only of a great inventor and engineer, pioneer in the applications of science, and benefactor of mankind, but also and more keenly, of a true comrade and dear friend, the memory of whose strong and gentle spirit is indissolubly blended with the social history of this organ ization, as his genius, enthusiasm, and activity were potent factors in its professional success. Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting be requested to deliver on some suitable future occasion an address in commemoration of the life and life-work of Mr. Holley. Resolved, That the Council of the Institute be requested to take into consideration the publication of a memorial volume, to contain the above-mentioned address, the proceedings of this meeting, and such other matters as may be deemed expedient. Resolved, That we extend to the American Society of Civil Engineers and to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers our sympathy in this great loss, sustained by them as well as our selves. Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to take charge, after consultation with the Council, and in coöperation with such similar committees as may be constituted by our two sister societies, of the execution of the measures proposed in these resolutions, and to represent the American Institute of Mining Engineers in any further proceedings that may be taken for the same purpose. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, together with the assurance of our profound sympathy, be transmitted by the Secretary to the family of Mr. Holley, and that copies be sent also to the Secretaries of the Américan Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. (Carried unanimously.) The Chairman, in signifying his cordial acceptance of the task of preparing a memorial address, read a private letter written to him several years ago, in which Mr. HOLLEY placed at his disposal certain biographical memoranda, and proposed that, of the two, the survivor should render this service of friendship to the other. The Chairman also read, at the conclusion of the meeting, the following letter: MY DEAR FRIEND: 89 JORALEMON ST., BROOKLYN, Feb., 1882. May I ask you to convey to my husband's friends in the Institute of Mining Engineers my deep sense of their kindness to me and affection for him? I have recalled so many times since his death their oft-repeated expressions of love for him. I never shall forget on one of the excursions at the Pittsburgh meeting the earnestness with which different members said to me, "Mrs. Holley, we do so love your husband." Those words pleased me then, but how much more precious they are to me now! They all know the sad circumstances of his death and all the darkness and gloom that so suddenly enveloped us. At first there seemed no comfort; but I wish I could make them feel as I do, not only the comfort but the almost joyousness that has filled my heart as I have read all their words of love and sympathy. I never can express my gratitude. Mr. Holley had the deepest interest in the Institute, and regarded its members as his brothers, and now their words make me feel that they had for him the same affection, and that at this meeting their |