Gardiner M. Lane '81, member of the firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., former railroad official, director in many corporations, treasurer of certain relief funds and local patron of the fine arts, died Saturday morning at 11.25 o'clock.

Mr. Lane was the son of George Martin Lane, formerly professor of Latin at the University. He was born at Cambridge, May 1, 1859, and entered Harvard from the Cambridge High School in July, 1877. He took his A.B. degree, summa cum laude, in 1881.

In spite of Mr. Lane's business activities, he found time to give very efficient service to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as trustee; and was also a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome, and a trustee of the American School at Athens. Appointments which he held from the Overseers of the College were upon the committee on classics and the committee on government. In 1903 he provided the funds for lecturing on classical literature and literary subjects in the University by eminent scholars abroad.