Memorial meeting in honor of the late Dr. John Shaw Billings, April 25, 1913.

  • New York Public Library
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1913
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Credit: Memorial meeting in honor of the late Dr. John Shaw Billings, April 25, 1913. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DR. JOHN SHAW BILLINGS, APRIL 25, 1913 As a tribute to the place in the world of letters and science held by the late Dr. John S. Billings, Director of The New York Public Library from 1896 until his death on March 11, 1913, the Trustees of the Library invited several hundred of his friends to meet with them on the afternoon of Friday, April 25,1913, to listen to addresses by certain of his friends and co-workers. The meeting was called to order at 4 o’clock in the Stuart gallery of the central building by John L. Cadwalader, president of the Board of Trustees. With him on the platform sat the following persons: The Right Rev. David H. Greer, bishop of New York, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Sir William Osier, Dr. William H. Welch, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. Richard R. Bowker; Messrs. William W. Appleton, Cleveland H. Dodge, Frederic R. Halsey, John Henry Hammond, Morgan J. O’Brien, Stephen H. Olin, William Barclay Parsons, George L. Rives, Charles Howland Russell, Edward W. Sheldon, George W. Smith, Frederick Sturges, and Henry W. Taft of the Board of Trustees; The Rev. Joseph H. McMahon and Mr. D. Phoenix Ingraham of the Committee on circula¬ tion; Mr. Edward G. Kennedy of the Advisory committee on prints; Major Henry Lee Higginson, and Mr. Edwin H. Anderson, acting Director of the Library. Mr. Cadwalader: We are met to commemorate the life and services of Dr. John Shaw Billings. Certain friends and co-workers with Dr. Billings will speak of him in the various walks of life in which they and he have been engaged, and these gentlemen will speak in the order, so to speak, of seniority, in that Dr. Mitchell will speak concerning his services in the Army and others as to various works in which they and he have been co-workers. We will first ask the Bishop of New York to offer prayer. PRAYER BY THE RIGHT REVEREND DAVID H. GREER BISHOP OF NEW YORK Let us pray. Almighty God and Heavenly Father, from Whom cometh every good and perfect gift, we adore and magnify Thy Name for all the great things which Thou hast done for us in this favored land; [3]