JOHN WESI.KY I'OWKLL DAVIS 



that many of his suggestions a number which never can be 

 known were unconsciously appropriated by his associates and 

 incorporated in their published results. . . . The scien- 

 tific product which he directly and indirectly inspired may 

 equal, or even exceed, that which stands in his own name." 



The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, S. P. Langley, 

 spoke of Powell in part as follows : "Wherever I have been 

 with him, in whatever surroundings, I think I have been more 

 impressed with the simplicity and self-comprised nature of his 

 character than even with the complexity of his knowledge and 

 achievement. He was to me not so much one of .the common 

 figures of daily life, as one of Plutarch's men. . . . Sin- 

 cere he was, and truthful to the point of being unable to bring 

 himself to hint the thing -which is not, nor even to allow the 

 shadow of deceit in his ways. Such sincerity existing in his 

 own heart, begat a confidence in others which did not always 

 meet its just return. . . . He was a generous man, kind to 

 others and helpful ; a combative and a brave, and always a 

 self-contained man, who found in himself counsel sufficient 

 for his need. . . . He was a truthful and steadfast man, 

 and one who never deserted a friend." 



Powell died at his summer home at Haven, Maine, on Sep- 

 tember 23, 1902, in his sixty-ninth year. 



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