XVII. CREATION OF MOUNT RAINIER 

 NATIONAL PARK 



MEMORIAL BY SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 



A SURPRISINGLY wide interest was awakened by the proposal to 

 create a national park to include the great mass of Mount 

 Rainier and its immediate surroundings. Five societies ap- 



Eointed committees to cooperate in securing the needed legis- 

 ition from Congress. Those committees prepared a memorial. 

 The Senate Miscellaneous Document, number 247, Fifty-third 

 Congress, second session, shows that the memorial was intro- 

 duced on July 1 6, 1894, by Senator Watson C. Squire from the 

 State of Washington. The memorial was deemed of sufficient 

 importance to be republished in the Eighteenth Annual Report 

 of the United States Geological Survey for 1896-1897. It is 

 here reproduced from that publication. 



With all the interest thus manifested, it required nearly five years 

 from the introduction of the memorial to witness the achieve- 

 ment of its purpose. The act of Congress creating the Mount 

 Rainier National Park bears the date of March 2, 1899. 



To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled: 

 At a meeting of the Geological Society of America, 

 in Madison, Wis., August 15, 1893, a committee was 

 appointed for the purpose of memorializing the Con- 

 gress in relation to the establishment of a national park 

 in the State of Washington to include Mount Rainier, 

 often called Mount Tacoma. The committee consists 

 of Dr. David T. Day, Mr. S. F. Emmons, and Mr. 

 Bailey Willis. 



At a meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, in Madison, Wis., August 

 21, 1893, a committee was appointed by that body for 

 the same purpose as above mentioned, consisting of 



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