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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



October, 



McRoberts Mason, of North Conway, 

 chairman of the Forestry Committee of 

 the Woman's Clubs, and Mrs. OHve 

 Rand Clark, of Manchester, were pres- 

 ent and promised active cooperation. 



Among other speakers were Dr. 

 Charles S. Murkland, President of the 

 New Hampshire College of Agriculture, 

 and Mr. F. W. Rane, professor of hor- 

 ticulture and agriculture at that institu- 

 tion ; Rev. W. W Niles, Bishop of New 

 Hampshire ; Mr. E. Bertram Pike, of 

 the Pike Manufacturing Company ; Mr. 

 Henry James, 2nd, of Cambridge, Mass. , 

 formerly editor of the Forester, and Mr. 

 W. T. Burgess, editor of the Nezv Eng- 

 land Homestead, of Springfield, Mass. 



A series of resolutions presented by 



Dr. John D. Quackenbos, of New York, 

 a vice-president of the Society, were 

 approved, in which the Society for the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests 

 expressed itself in favor of legislation 

 looking to the establishment of a nur- 

 sery for the distribution of young trees 

 and seeds, the exemption from taxation 

 for a term of fifteen years of land prop- 

 erly planted, together with a bill to 

 provide for a survey which shall de- 

 termine the location, character, value, 

 extent, and ownership of the forests in 

 the White Mountain region. 



It was felt that if a national reserva- 

 tion in the White Mountains is secured, 

 that the state will cooperate to its utmost 

 extent. 



MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL DEAD. 



A FAMOUS SCIENTIST AND A PIONEER IN THE IRRIGATION 



MOVEMENT. 



MAJ. JOHN WESEEY POWELE, 

 Director of the Bureau of Eth- 

 nology of the Smithsonian Institution 

 at Washington, died at his summer 

 home at Haven, Me., on September 23, 

 and was buried in the national ceme- 

 tary at Arlington on the 26th. 



Maj . John Wesley Powell was one of 

 the world's foremost scientists. He was 

 regarded as the pioneer in the study of 

 ethnology and the chief authority on 

 the subject. He was known equally 

 well as a geologist, anthropologist, and 

 geographer. His contributions to scien- 

 tific literature include some of the most 

 important works extant, and his official 

 reports, to the number of more than a 

 hundred volumes, are considered scien- 

 tific text-books. 



Major Powell was the son of a Metho- 

 dist minister, and was born March 24, 

 1834, at Mount Morris, N. Y. His 

 father's work as a minister took him to 

 all parts of the United States. The 

 elder Powell died while the family was 

 living in northern Illinois. Major Pow- 

 ell was then about fourteen years of age, 

 and he had already demonstrated his 

 fondness for the natural sciences and 

 displayed great aptitude in the study of 



natural history and geology. He made 

 a number of collections of objects of 

 natural history, one of which found its 

 way to one of the colleges. 



He first attracted the attention of the 

 scientific world when, at an early age, 

 he made a trip to Texas, then a peril- 

 ous journey, to secure the seeds of bois 

 d'arc, commonly known as the osage 

 orange tree, with which to grow hedges 

 and thus solve the fence problem which 

 was bothering the farmers of Illinois 

 and other prairie states. After his re- 

 turn he took a special course at Oberliii 

 College, Ohio, and later was made sec- 

 retary of the Illinois State Natural His- 

 tory Society. 



At the outbreak of the civil war Major 

 Powell enlisted in the Twentieth Illi- 

 nois Volunteer Infantry. Major Powell 

 served in every rank, from that of pri- 

 vate to lieutenant-colonel of artillery, 

 which rank he held in the ^Second Illi- 

 nois Artillery at the battle of Shiloh. 

 In this engagement the section of the 

 regiment under his command held a very 

 important position, the holding of which 

 meant victory for the Union forces. 

 Major Powell held it and during the 

 latter part of the battle his right arm 



