418 GEORGE W. CULLUM. 



the first to announce and formulate the radical changes that were de- 

 manded by the increased power of modern ordnance, and have formed 

 the basis of all subsequent methods that have been adopted by the 

 armies and navies of America and Elurope. As General Cullum's 

 talents and tastes rather inclined him to the literary part of the work, 

 he was generally selected to prepare these reports. From 1861 to 

 18(34 he was a member of the United States Sanitary Commission. 



In 1864 he was appointed Superintendent of the United States 

 Military Academy. From 1866 to 1868 he was stationed in New 

 York City as a member of the Board of Engineers on New York 

 Harbor, and from 1868 to 1874 as a member of the permanent 

 board, whose duty it was to prepare all schemes of fortification re- 

 quired for the defence of the seacoast of the United States, and to 

 advise the Chief of Engineers on all important points connected with 

 river and harbour improvements. A complete list of his military 

 duties is given in his own Biographical Register, Vol. I. pp. 535-537. 



After his retirement from active service, in 1874, he devoted his 

 time to literary work with untiring energy. He has been Vice-Pres- 

 ident of the American Geographical Society since 1874, and Pres- 

 ident of the Geographical Library Society of New York since 1880. 

 He was a member of the Board of Managers of the New York Asso- 

 ciation for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor from 1880 

 to 1882; of the Farragut Monument Association from 1880 to 1881 ; 

 a delegate to the conference of the Association for the Reform and 

 Codification of the Law of Nations, held at Cologne in 1881, and of 

 the International Geographical Conference, held at Venice, September. 

 1881. He has been a member of the Association of the Graduates of 

 the United States Military Academy since 1870 ; a Corresponding 

 Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 1883 ; an As- 

 sociate Member of the American Academy and of the American 

 Historical Association since 1885. 



The following extracts from the Bulletin of the American Geo- 

 graphical Society, and from the Annual Report of the Association of 

 the Graduates of the Military Academy, show the high esteem in 

 which he was held by his associates. 



" Resolved, that in the death of our first Vice-President. Major Gen- 

 eral George W. Cullum, U. S. Army, this society has lost one of the 

 most eminent, useful, and devoted of its members. No one who has been 

 connected with it during the forty years of its existence had a more com- 

 prehensive view of the importance of the inquiries to which its labors 

 have been directed, or saw more clearly how much it might accomplish 



