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ical Society of America, in 1892. and was again president in 1909, 

 the only man honored by a second term. In 1899 he was president 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, prob- 

 ably the highest honor in the gift of American science. Naturally 

 he was active and prominent in the scientific societies of the na- 

 tional capitol, and was a member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences. He was a Foreign Fellow of the Geological Society of 

 London, and received its Wollaston Medal in 1899. He was Presi- 

 dent of the American Society of Naturalists, 1885-1886 ; Philosoph- 

 ical Society of Washington, 1895 ; Association of American Geog- 

 raphers, 1908. He received the Walker Grand Prize from the 

 Boston Society of Natural History in 1908. He was a member 

 of the Delta Upsilon college fraternity. 



H. L. Fairchild. 



EDWIN EUGENE HOWELL 

 (Read before the Academy, December 9, 1918.) 



Howell was one of the interesting group of men who have won 

 distinction in science and received their early training in Ward's 

 Natural Science Establishment. 



He was born in Genesee County, March 12, 1845, and died in 

 Washington, D. C., April 16, 1911. His youth was passed on a 

 farm with early education in the country schools. His sister was 

 Henry A. Ward's first wife, which relation doubtless explains his 

 entrance to Wards' establishment in 1865. at the age of 20, where 

 he remained until 1872, when he joined the government surveys in 

 the far west. G. K. Gilbert was at Ward's for three years after 

 Howell arrived, and left the Ohio Survey for the Wheeler Sur- 

 vey in 1871, and it is surmised that it was through Gilbert that 

 Howell also joined the Wheeler party. On this survey, the U. S. 

 Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian, Lieutenant 

 George M. Wheeler in charge, he remained two years, and in 1874 

 became a geologist on the Powell Survey of the Rocky Mountain 

 region. In these surveys he made reconnaissance in Utah, Nevada, 

 Arizona and New Mexico. There is a suggestion in Gilbert's 

 memoir* that Howell left the Survey with the conviction that it 



* Bulletin Geological Societ,v of America, volume 23, pages 30-32. 



