JOHN WESI.KY I'OWKI.I. DAVIS 

 RESIDENCE IN WASHINGTON. 



We may here introduce between the accounts of Powell's 

 work in Geology and in Ethnology a brief statement of his 

 personal relations with his associates and of his large share in 

 organizing and supporting scientific societies in the National 

 Capital. His Washington home at 910 M street N. W. was 

 for many years recognized as a scientific center not only for 

 employees under his charge, but for the scientific men of 

 Washington in general. It was in his parlor that the Cosmos j 

 Club was organized in 1878; he was then made its temporary ! 

 president and became formally the president of the perma- 

 nent organization on January 10, i88i.l The club has now 

 more than 600 resident and 350 non-resident members, and 

 includes therein most of the representatives of science, litera- 

 ture, and art in the National Capital. Through the winter of 

 1883 an informal reception was held in Major Powell's parlor 

 every Sunday evening for the members of the Geological Sur- 

 vey and Bureau of Ethnology, but these receptions soon grew 

 toojarge to permit of their continuation. 



Powell's large share in developing non-official scientific in- 

 terests in Washington may be inferred from his relation to the 

 following societies, most of which have their seat in the Na- 

 tional Capital. He held at one time or another membership in /} 

 the Anthropological Society of Washington, of which he was 

 a founder, and also President in 1879-1882, 1883-1885, 1887, 

 and 1895 ; in the American Anthropological Association, of 

 which he was a founder; in the "Washington Academy of Sci- 

 ences, of which he was an incorporator and vice-president ; in 

 the National Geographic Society, of which he was an incor- 

 porator ; in the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, of which he was president in 1888; in the National 

 Academy of Sciences; in the Philosophical, the Biological, the 

 Chemical, and the Geological Societies of Washington; in the 

 Geological Society of America, of which he was one of the 

 first councillors, and in the American Folk-lore Society. He 

 was known to be an associate member of the Societe d'Anthro- 

 pologie of Paris, and a corresponding member of the Berliner 

 Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie, Ethnologic und Urgeschichte ; 



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