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the manuscript are extant (including one in the cornerstone of 

 the Gardiner Greene Hubbard memorial building). The Major 

 long had a plan for the completion of his organon in case he 

 was cut off before it was done ; but, with characteristic opti- 

 mism he failed to secure effective approval of the plan in writ- 

 ing, so that it may never be carried out. 



Still John Wesley Powell is not without monuments : The 

 Ethnological Bureau which he created, and which he conducted 

 for twenty three years under difficulties and against obstacles 

 which will never be known, has long been regarded as a model 

 by the ethnologists of every land ; the four or five series of 

 ethnologic publications under his name form a library of the 

 science on which the anthropologists of the world are con- 

 stantly dependent ; his minor papers and addresses have done 

 no less than the greater tomes to establish the Science of Man ; 

 yet his noblest monument, and the one which he would most 

 appreciate, is that loving memory that lives in the hearts of his 

 fellows in the study of Humanity. 



The President said : 



In passing in review the organizations of which Major Powell 

 was one of the founders, directors, trustees, or active supporters, 

 one or all, we cannot fail to take notice of the Philosophical 

 Society of Washington, the Anthropological Society of Wash- 

 ington, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, the Columbian University, and the Cosmos 

 Club. These, and doubtless others which do not come to mind 

 at the moment, owe much to the fostering care and wise guid- 

 ance of this admirably poised man, who, while sturdily self- 

 reliant, did not lose sight of the power of combined and well- 

 directed forces. 



Major Powell, in establishing and administering organiza- 

 tions, founded firmly and developed broadly. From nature 

 he had learned that nothing worth while is ever accomplished 

 suddenly or done in a hurry, and he knew that his own 

 work must be carried forward by others after he was gone 

 if it was to be of permanent value. He was therefore 



