January 17, 1902.] 



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to the purposes of commerce. Nor must it be 

 overlooked that the speed of transmission by 

 Marconi telegraphy must be extremely limited 

 compared with the possibilities of the cable. It 

 is, therefore, not the territory of the telegraph 

 and cable companies that Mr. Marconi can suc- 

 cessfully invade with his wireless telegraphy." 



CLARENCE KING. 



A MEETING of all the scientific men engaged 

 in the work of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 was held in Washington on Saturday, Decem- 

 ber 28, to express their profound sorrow at the 

 death of Mr. Clarence King, first Director of 

 the Survey. Short but appreciative addresses, 

 eulogistic of the life and work of Mr. King 

 were made by Major J. W. Powell, the suc- 

 cessor of Mr. King as director of the survey; 

 Hon. Charles D. Walcott, the present director, 

 and Mr. S. T. Emmons. At the request 

 of the director Mr. Arnold Hague read the fol- 

 lowing tribute to the character and achieve- 

 ments of Mr. King, which was unanimously 

 adopted by those present as an expression of 

 their admiration of his life and their bereave- 

 ment in his death: 



"It is with profound sorrow that we learn 

 of the death of Clarence King, the first direc- 

 tor and, in a sense, the founder of the Geo- 

 logical Survey. In him we have lost not only 

 a great scientific leader, but a genial and ac- 

 complished gentleman, whose personal quali- 

 ties endear him to all who knew him, and 

 whose many acts of loving kindness have left 

 a wide circle of friends in all walks of life 

 to mourn his untimely death. 



" As organizer and, during ten years, Chief 

 of the United States Geological Exploration of 

 the Fortieth Parallel, he set higher standards 

 for geological work in the United States and 

 laid the foundations of a systematic survey of 

 the country. He gave practical recognition to 

 the fact that a good topographical map is the 

 essential basis for accurate geological work. 



"As first director of the present Geological 

 Survey, he laid down the broad general lines 

 upon which its work should be conducted and 

 which, as followed by his able successors, have 

 led to its present development. He estab- 

 lished the principle that a geological survey of 



the United States should be distinguished 

 among similar organizations by the promi- 

 nence given to the direct application of scien- 

 tific results to the development of its mineral 

 wealth. 



"In that essential quality of an investigator 

 — scientific imagination — no one surpassed 

 King, and his colleagues have all profited by 

 his suggestiveness. He was never content 

 with the study of science as he found it but 

 always sought to raise the standard of geology 

 as well as to apply known principles to the 

 survey of the country. 



"King first introduced microscopical petrog- 

 raphy into American geology and, as early as 

 his Fortieth Parallel work, he foreshadowed 

 the application of exact physics to questions 

 of geological dynamics. Early in the history 

 of the present survey he established a physical 

 laboratory. One result of this step was a 

 paper on the 'Age of the Earth' which takes 

 very high rank among modern scientific 

 memoirs. Although in his last years circum- 

 stances rendered it necessary for him to devote 

 most of his time to other occupations, he had 

 by no means abandoned plans for geological 

 investigation on a scale worthy of his reputa- 

 tion. 



"In Clarence King geological science in 

 America will miss a pioneer and a leader; the 

 Geological Survey loses its broad-minded 

 founder and adviser, and its older members a 

 beloved friend." 



MAP OF THE PHILIPPINES. 



The National Geographic Magazine pub- 

 lishes as a supplement to its January num- 

 ber a map of the Philippines — 5 feet 2 inches 

 by 3 feet. The map is on the scale of 15 miles 

 to an inch and was prepared by the U. S. 

 Signal Ofiice. Every towm or hamlet known by 

 the Jesuits or reported to the War Depart- 

 ment by its many ofiicers throughout the 

 islands is indicated on the map. It is a com.- 

 pilation of everything now known about the 

 Philippine Archipelago. Sheet I. gives the 

 Northern Philippines and Sheet II. the South- 

 ern Philippines, as officially divided by the 

 United States Government. A glance at the 

 map shows how much exploration is needed 



