Obituary
Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor, U. S. Navy, the President of the U. S. Naval Institute, died on July 26, 1904, and by his death the Naval Institute lost a friend and counsellor whose interest in its welfare never abated.
Rear Admiral Taylor not only from time to time wrote papers upon professional subjects for the Institute Proceedings,—even when overburdened with work as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation contributing to the pages of the Institute a valuable paper on “The Fleet,”—but, what was of still more importance, the Institute could always count upon his moral support and his influence to aid in advancing its prosperity and usefulness.
By his high character and his distinguished abilities, Rear Admiral Taylor greatly honored the position of President of the Naval Institute which his untimely death has made vacant, and the Naval Institute together with the Navy at large mourns his loss.